Hank Mobley - Mobley's Message (Mono) / Analogue Productions

The critic Leonard Feather coined the phrase about Hank Mobley that he was the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone". His style was less aggressive than that of a John Coltrane

or a Sonny Rollins, but also not as smooth and cool as that of a Stan Getz or Lester Young. Mobley introduced hard bop to jazz - music between cultivated worldliness and deep sensitivity,

complexity and lightness, whose free structure allows extended improvisations.In 1956, Hank Mobley released "Mobley's Message" on the Prestige label. Supported by Donald Byrd (trumpet),

Barry Harris (piano), Jackie McLean (alto saxophone), Art Tayler (drums) and Doug Watkins (bass), he recorded six tracks in changing constellations. Only for Charlie Parker's "Au Privave" the band acts as a sextet.

Title

1. Bouncing with Bud

2. 52nd Street Theme

3. Minor Disturbance

4. Au Privave

5. Little Girl Blue

6. Alternating Current