Mobley was, is and always will be my go to tenor. Easy on the ears with just enough "bite" and when he dialed things back, no one wrapped themselves around a ballad quite like Hank.
I just dug my MOSAIC box out again which I own since many years: "The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions" which also included the "Hank" sessions. I can't remember the tunes anymore, so it's great that YOU remember the album now, Marc. I will listen the whole box again in the next days. 🙂
David states it well. Hank had a wonderful, smoky and rounded tone and a fluent flow of musical ideas. I've read somewhere (source now lost, like my car keys) that he was taunted mercilessly by the Trane acolytes for his old fashioned sound, so he eventually migrated to a rougher sound late in his career.
Mobley was, is and always will be my go to tenor. Easy on the ears with just enough "bite" and when he dialed things back, no one wrapped themselves around a ballad quite like Hank.
Really special. Thank you.
I just dug my MOSAIC box out again which I own since many years: "The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions" which also included the "Hank" sessions. I can't remember the tunes anymore, so it's great that YOU remember the album now, Marc. I will listen the whole box again in the next days. 🙂
David states it well. Hank had a wonderful, smoky and rounded tone and a fluent flow of musical ideas. I've read somewhere (source now lost, like my car keys) that he was taunted mercilessly by the Trane acolytes for his old fashioned sound, so he eventually migrated to a rougher sound late in his career.
"Calamitous" polyrhythms? Cymbal "bashes"? I don't think so.