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Hank Mobley: Another Workout
by Samuel Chell
Hank Mobley Another Workout Blue Note 2006 (1961/1985) I can scarcely remember the last time an anticipated “new" release has afforded as much immediate pleasure as this one. Go with a single horn player--arguably the most melodically fertile tenor saxophonist of his time--and give him the support of a rhythm ...
Hank Mobley: Dippin'
by Chris May
Hank Mobley spent most of 1964 banged up for drug offences. The year of the Beatles' US breakthrough, which sounded the final death knell for hard bop as a mainline music of inner city youth, happened beyond Mobley's eyes and ears. Is it too fanciful to suppose he barely noticed it happening? Probably yes. But it ...
Hank Mobley: Workout
by Chris May
Miles Davis dissed him, Leonard Feather called him the middleweight champion, and most people thought that John Coltrane outshone him. Because of these and a few other real or imagined slings and arrows, a kind of victim support group vibe has gathered around Hank Mobley in recent years. He's in danger of going down in history ...
Hank Mobley: Hi Voltage
by George Harris
Poor Hank Mobley: overlooked and under appreciated in his lifetime not only as a tenor player, but also as a composer, as this '68 reissue testifies. While none of these originals have caught on through the years, Hi Voltage makes a strong case for a revisit of Mobley's songbook. With an all-star frontline (Jackie ...
Hank Mobley: Hi Voltage
by Samuel Chell
I'm one of those listeners so addicted to the blues-drenched, butterscotch-smooth sound of Hank Mobley's tenor that I can scarcely last a week without playing one of his recordings. The newly reissued Hi Voltage, unfortunately, turns out to be a negligible session by the “middleweight champion" of the tenor saxophone. When the recording was ...
The Flip
By Hank Mobley
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Flip; Feelin' Folksy; Snappin' Out; 18th
Hole; Early Morning Stroll,
Respect for Hank Mobley
by Marshall Bowden
Hank Mobley always suffered from the perception in some quarters that he was neither an innovative nor particularly gifted improviser. This is hogwash, as the many Mobley reissues that are becoming available demonstrate. The main problem most listeners had with Mobley was that he was not fortunate enough to be born John Coltrane or Sonny Rollins. ...
Hank Mobley
by Robert Spencer
In the Unsung Hero business some are more unsung than others, and Hank Mobley ranks with the most surpassingly unsung. But this is no distinction; it is a tragedy. Miles Davis dissed him, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins overshadowed him, and the avant-garde and fusion cast him into penniless obscurity. By the time he died in ...
Unsung Recordings by Hank Mobley
by Robert Spencer
Our “Unsung Recordings" section is designed to give you a sense of some of the best recordings of an “Unsung Hero." Here are two of Hank Mobley's greatest - and one of his most intriguing: Soul Station (Blue Note RVG Edition 7243 4 95343 2 2) Rudy Van Gelder made it sound ...
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 ...
