Cd - Hank Mobely - Thinking Of Home

Genre: JazzRelease Date: 10/08/2002 Style: Tenor SaxRecord Label: Blue Note Artist: Hank MobleyUPC: 724354053122 Format: CDDetaed item infoAlbum FeaturesUPC:724354053122Artist:Hank MobleyFormat:CDRelease Year:2002Record Label:Blue NoteGenre:Jazz Instrument, Tenor Sax Track Listing1. Suite: Thinking of Home/The Flight/Home at Last: Thinking Of Home / The Flight / Home At Last2. Justine3. You Gotta Hit It4. Gayle's Groove5. Talk About Gittin' It DetasPlaying Time:43 min.Contributing Artists:Woody Shaw, Cedar WaltonProducer:Michael Cuscuna, Duke Pearson, Francis WolffDistributor:EMI Music DistributionRecording Type:StudioRecording Mode:StereoSPAR Code:n/a Album NotesPersonnel: Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone); Woody Shaw (trumpet); Cedar Walton (piano); Eddie Diehl (guitar); Mickey Bass (bass); Leroy Wliams (drums).Recorded at van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on July 31, 1970. Originally released on Blue Note (40531). Includes liner notes by Todd Barkan.All tracks have been digitally remastered.This is part of Bluenote Records "Connoisseur" series.Personnel: Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone); Eddie Diehl (guitar); Woody Shaw (trumpet); Cedar Walton (piano); Leroy Wliams (drums).Recording information: New York, NY (07/31/1970); Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (07/31/1970).Author: Carl Gustav Jung .Photographer: Francis Wolff.For what would be his final of over 20 Blue Note albums, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley uses a sextet that also includes trumpeter Woody Shaw, the obscure guitarist Eddie Diehl, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Mickey Bass, and drummer Leroy Wliams for a typically challenging set of advanced hard bop music. For the first and only time in his career, Mobley recorded a "Suite" (consisting of "Thinking of Home," "The Flight," and "Home at Last"); the remainder of the set has three of his other attractive originals plus Mickey Bass' "Gayle's Groove." This music was not released for the first time unt 1980. It is only fitting that Hank Mobley would record one of the last worthwhe Blue Note albums before its artistic collapse (it would not be revived unt the 1980s) for his consistent output helped define the label's sound in the 1960s. Mobley's excellent playing and the adventurous solos of Woody Shaw make this hard-to-find LP (his last as a leader) one to hunt for. ~ Scott Yanow Editorial Reviews