(ThyBlackMan.com) When the conversation turns to the giants of the tenor saxophone, Hank Mobley’s name doesn’t always come up first — but it should. Sometimes dubbed “the middleweight champion of the ...
Hank Mobley’s Jazz Message #2 shines in Craft Recordings’ OJC reissue, featuring Byrd, a teenage Lee Morgan, and a powerhouse rhythm section—32 minutes of lean, hard bop excellence. Morgan might have ...
Recorded in August 1957, Hank Mobely Quintet featured the tenor saxophonist fronting a band that had been an early lineup of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. The only difference was that Art Farmer ...