Late last night, I heard from Bill Pauluh, who informed me that a video of Hank Mobley just went up on YouTube. The clip, from a Danish TV show called JazzBeat, was taped live on March 8 at the famed Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark. This is big news, since so little video exists of the tenor saxophonist in action.
The nearly nine-minute video features Mobely with Dexter Gordon's rhythm section at the time—Kenny Drew on piano, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen on bass and Albert Heath on drums. The song they perform is George Gershwin's Summertime. It's a shame there isn't more from the set. That night, they also played Blue Bossa, Alone Together and Workout, a Mobley original.
Here's the video clip in Denmark...
And here's Mobley's Workout from 1961, featuring Hank Mobley (ts), Wynton Kelly (p), Grant Green (g), Paul Chambers (b) and Philly Joe Jones (d)... .
The nearly nine-minute video features Mobely with Dexter Gordon's rhythm section at the time—Kenny Drew on piano, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen on bass and Albert Heath on drums. The song they perform is George Gershwin's Summertime. It's a shame there isn't more from the set. That night, they also played Blue Bossa, Alone Together and Workout, a Mobley original.
Here's the video clip in Denmark...
And here's Mobley's Workout from 1961, featuring Hank Mobley (ts), Wynton Kelly (p), Grant Green (g), Paul Chambers (b) and Philly Joe Jones (d)... .
This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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