A1 Bouncing With Bud
Written-By Bud Powell
6:57
A2 52nd Street Theme
Written-By Monk
5:41
A3 Minor Disturbance
Written-By Mobley
6:15
B1 Au Privave
Written-By Charlie Parker
7:31
B2 Little Girl Blue
Written-By Rodgers & Hart
8:41
B3 Alternating Current
Written-By Mobley
6:30
Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Alto Saxophone – Jackie McLean (track B1)
Bass – Doug Watkins
Drums – Art Taylor
Piano – Barry Harris
Recorded By Van Gelder
Tenor Saxophone – Hank Mobley
Trumpet – Donald Byrd (tracks: A1 to B1, B3)
Deluxe high-gloss tip-on album jacket
The first 250 LP copies will be numbered editions and will only be available to series subscribers.
Features: 200 gram Deep groove pressings, just like the originals where there is a deep groove that appears to be cut into the record label area of the disk, the result of the die that was used in the old presses in the ‘50s. Original tip-on jacket facsimiles with the original thick cardboard stock. The monos are pressed with a flat-edge, no groove-guard flat profile, just like the originals.
Analogue Productions catalog number found on poly bag record comes with.
Cut from the analogue masters by renowned mastering engineer Kevin Gray
200-gram pressing by Quality Record Pressings has a flat edge profile and deep groove label, true to the original LP
Critic Leonard Feather asserted that Hank Mobley was “the middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone,” meaning that his tone wasn’t as aggressive and thick as John Coltrane or Sonny Rollins, but neither was it as soft and cool as Stan Getz or Lester Young. Mobley helped inaugurate the hard bop movement: Jazz that balanced sophistication and soulfulness, complexity and earthy swing, and whose loose structure allowed for extended improvisations.
Born in Eastman, Georgia, in 1930, but raised in New Jersey, Hank’s long-lined tenor offerings became a staple for pianist Horace Silver’s group, which evolved into the ‘50s super quintet co-led by Art Blakley, dubbed the Jazz Messengers. Their groundbreaking first album for Blue Note, 1955’s Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers, was a hard bop landmark, featuring sophisticated solos and bright, almost funky rhythms. Mobley hit his peak in the first half of the 1960s with hard bop cornerstones like Soul Station, No Room for Squares, and A Caddy for Daddy.
On this Prestige offering, Mobley delivers his signature swinging style in three different variations. Four numbers are by the quintet in which Hank is helped by telegrapher Donald Byrd and his “sending” trumpet. They disseminate the information of two pronouncements from bop’s palmy days, Bud Powell’s “Bouncin’ With Bud” and Thelonious Monk’s “52nd Street Theme,” plus two more numbers, Hank’s “Minor Disturbance” and the group’s “Alternating Current.”
For Charlie Parker’s blues, “Au Privave,” the group becomes a sextet with the addition of a young turk of the alto sax, Jackie McLean.
Hank is the sole horn on “Little Girl Blue.” |
