Download Hank Mobley

Artist: Hank Mobley: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Jazz     Discography:      Dippin'    Year: 2006    Tracks: 1      Reach Out    Year: 2005    Tracks: 6      Soul Station    Year: 1999    Tracks: 6      Vol 20 - Jimmy Raney    Year: 1979    Tracks: 21      Poppin    Year:     Tracks: 5 One of the Blue Note label's authoritative difficult bop artists, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley remains somewhat underappreciated for his square, swinging dash. Any characterisation of Mobley always begins with critic Leonard Feather's asseveration that he was the "middleweight champion of the tenor sax," meaning that his tonus wasn't as fast-growing and wooden-headed as John Coltrane or Sonny Rollins, merely neither was it as soft and cool as Stan Getz or Lester Young. Instead, Mobley's middle, "round" (as he described it) sound was controlled and even, apt over to subtlety genial of than intense displays of emotion. Even if he lacked the electric, mercurial qualities of the era's cracking tenor innovators, Mobley remained systematically strong passim most of his recording calling. His solo lines were full of intricate rhythmical patterns that were delivered with spot-on preciseness, and he was no slouch harmonically either. As a charter member of Horace Silver's Jazz Messengers, Mobley helped introduce the difficult bop social movement: malarky that balanced sophistication and soul, complexity and earthy dangle, and whose at large anatomical LC244% enjoyed a positivist reassessment; with it came a raw appreciation for Mobley's extremely developed talents as a composer and soloist, kinda of a centering on his shortcomings.