normblog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Instead of wisdom on the crisis, I bring you Hank Mobley on tenor sax. 'Underappreciated' is one of the things it says under the link, and in fact no jazz musician is more often referred to as 'underrated'. But he's...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Talking about the tenor. Talking about the giants. Talking about Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Hank Mobley, Sonny Rollins and Pharoah Sanders. Talking about the people who blew the night into day and the day into night. They were swinging, singing, shouting--always searching deeper into the music...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Astrud Gilberto is one of those people who gets called a legend, though no-one ever bothered explaining why. Well, Astrud is the voice on the most famous version of 'Girl From Ipanema'. Y'know that one? "Tall and tan and young...
Enzian Theater (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
This weekend sadly marked the passing of yet another legend of jazz who chose to live overseas more than four decades ago. Chicago native Johnny Griffin, a small man and one of the great tenor saxophonists of all time (which...
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Playlist Return to Forever – Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy Forqueray – Pieces de Viole 1747 Jackie McLean – Demon’s Dance Miles Davis – Bitches Brew JS Bach – Oboe Concertos Messiaen – 20 Regards Sur L’infant Jesus Earthworks – All Heaven Brok Loose Jaco Pastorius – Jaco Pastorius Hank Mobley – Roll Call Brad Mehldau – Largo Cloudland Blue Quartet – Ersatzreal Live Various – Compilations Jukebox on Shuffleplay...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Enjoy a variety of music and more for free at Chandler Center for the Arts in the coming weeks at the Free Summer Concert Series.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
July 6 Frank Rehak (1926-1987) Phyllis Hyman (1941-1995) July 7 Tiny Grimes (1916-1989) Doc Severinsen (1927) Hank Mobley (1930-1986) Joe Zawinul (1932-2007) John Campbell (1955)...
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Playlist Hank Mobley – Roll Call John Coltrane – Blue Train Freddie Hubbard – Blue Spirits Hank Mobley – Workout Freddie Hubbard – Breaking Point Tina Brooks – True Blue Kenny Dorham – Trompeta Toccata Andrew Hill – Grass Roots Art Blakey – Buhaina’s Delight Murray Perahia – Perahia Plays Schumann Joe Henderson – In ’n Out Freddie Hubbard – Here to Stay Donald Byrd – The Cat Walk Andrew Hill – Black...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Fun, fun, brilliant, spirit-raising fun. News For Lulu, recorded in 1987 and here reissued in a new master with a bonus track, features three idiosyncratic post-modern improvisers in a homage to the late 1950s hard bop songbook--not playing the material for laughs, not subjecting it to "reconstruction," but approaching it with joy, respect, truck loads of energy and unfettered, viral abandon...
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Playlist Donald Byrd – The Cat Walk Bruford/Borstlap – Every Step a Dance, Every Word a Song Hank Mobley – Another Workout Camel – Lunar Sea : An Anthology 1973-1985 Uhersky Brod - “vz.67” Mr Byrd in my ears this morning followed by Mr Bruford and his dutch pianist chum Borstlap at lunchtime – at which point I made my customary walk to FOPP and bought another £4 Blue Note disc, Hank Mobley’s “Another...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
From 1949 to 1963, the Black Hawk was San Francisco's premier jazz club. It presented a cross section of the world's best musicians. Like legions of other fans, I spent some of the most rewarding listening hours of my...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
"Lessons in jazz? Uh-oh. This is when you lose us man, don't you be talkin' about diminished sevenths and all that... jazz." Don't worry. None of that here. Lessons in jazz means this... dig: Here's a jazz number that one...
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Playlist Various - Rock & Pop Jukebox Shuffleplay Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Mosaic Hank Mobley - Reach Out Don Cherry - Symphony for Improvisers To FOPP at lunchtime where I bought three more £4 Blue Note titles - and forgot for the second day running to go to the Post office to pick up the Cup Final tickets - aaarghhhh!!!! Anne was out tonight at the ballet with chum Debbie so I took the...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Were it not for the mature and ceaselessly lyrical contributions of tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, this RVG remaster of an eponymous 1956 Lee Morgan date (subtitled, on the backside of the album, Volume 2: Sextet) would appeal only to Morgan completists. The trumpeter's early Blue Note recordings and meteoric rise have already been documented by a number of distinguished Morgan reissues--City Lights,...
Casa Valdez Studios (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
My man Tim Price wrote this nice piece for the Rico MySpace blog : It's time for a lot of saxophonists to learn the language of jazz on the saxophone, and listen to the playing of Sonny Stitt, Hank Mobley, Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderly, Eric Dolphy, Sonny Criss, Vince Wallace, Bert Wilson, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, John Coltrane, Lester Young, Chu Berry, Wardell Grey, Harold Ashby,...
