Feature on Hank Mobley

Much listened to by hard bop fans but critically undervalued, Hank Mobley's music deserves more attention than it gets. This month, September 2008, we attempt to redress the balance a little:We select and review in detail Hank Mobley's "Soul Station" as one of the 100 greatest jazz albums of all time:"Hank Mobley: Soul Station"Blue Note release remastered versions of three albums featuring Hank

Hank Mobley - Soul Station

Blue NoteRecording date: February 7th, 1960 at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs RVG Remaster: March 23rd 1999Availabilty: CD, MP3 download, iTunes Personnel: Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone)Wynton Kelly (piano)Paul Chambers (bass)Art Blakey (drums) Tracks: Remember, This I Dig Of You, Dig Dis, Split Feelin's, Soul Station, If I Should Lose You Review: Hank Mobley was extensively recorded by

Hank Mobley - The Missing Album

Blue NoteRecording date: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, March 7, 1963Release date: Not yet released as a single album As Hank Mobley's career stagnated in the 1970's, he looked back to the music he had made in the previous decade and could not understand why so much of it had remained unreleased in the Blue Note vaults. As he told John Litweiler in a rere interview in 1973, the

Curtis Fuller - The Opener

Blue NoteRecording Date: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, June 16, 1957 Re-release date (RVG Edition): September 2nd 2008Availabilty: CD, MP3 download, iTunesCurtis Fuller burst onto the New York jazz scene in 1957 aged just 23 after starting out in Yusef Lateef's quintet. In June he played at Café Bohemia with Miles Davis and was signed by Alfred Lion who had joined the audience. "The

Hank Mobley / Lee Morgan -Peckin' Time

Blue NoteRecording Date: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, February 9, 1958Re-release date (RVG Edition): September 16th 2008Availabilty: CD, MP3 download, iTunes"Peckin' Time", badged as a Hank Mobley-Lee Morgan joint effort, is really a Hank Mobley album; all the compositions (except for the Weil/Nash standard "Speak Low") are Hank Mobley originals. Not that Lee Morgan does not play with

Hank Mobley - Quintet

Blue NoteRecording Date: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, March 8, 1957Re-release date (RVG Edition): September 2nd 2008Availabilty: CD, MP3 download, iTunesThe revival of interest in Hank Mobley's music gains pace with release in the same month of three remastered albums featuring the undervalued tenor sax player and composer."Quintet" essentially features the typical Art Blakey Jazz