How lyrical are Hank Mobley's tenor saxophone solos? Lyrical enough that singers seem to like putting words to them or just scatting along. Yesterday, I was on YouTube and found a bunch of Mobley warblers, many of whom chose songs from his 1960 album, Soul Station [photo of Hank Mobley above by Francis Wolff (c) Mosaic Images]:
Here's Alexandra Baird, wh…
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