Hank Mobley: The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70

Although he never achieved the popular celebrity of such peers on the same instrument as John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, or even Joe Henderson, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley was indisputably one of the most valuable players of the hard bop era. Consider some of groups of which he was a member—Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, the Max Roach Quartet, the bands of Horace Silver and Miles Davis—and the many albums he headed on the Blue Note label. As writer Bob Blumenthal reiterates in his notes for The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963–70, Mobley became known as “the middleweight champion of …