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Hank Mobley: The Flip
by Germein Linares
Leonard Feather once hailed Hank Mobley as the middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone." Mobley was better than that. An exquisite soul messenger, Mobley was criticized for not being as aggressive, voluminous, or trailblazing as his contemporaries. Indeed, he was not. Instead, his music was steeped in care, precision and nuances. In Mobley's hands, such treatment often dazzled, as on his latest Blue Note reissue, The Flip.
Recorded in 1969 at Studio Barclay in Paris, this album would be Mobley's ...
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