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One of the Blue Note label’s definitive hard bop artists, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley remains somewhat underappreciated for his straightforward, swinging style.
Como solista, fue uno de los artistas principales del sello Blue Note a partir de la segunda mitad de los años cincuenta. Biografía. Aunque nacido en Eastman, creció en Elizabeth (Nueva Jersey). Varios de sus familiares eran músicos (pianistas y organistas de iglesia), por lo que el primer instrumento que aprendió a tocar Mobley fue el piano.
Mobley worked for brief periods with Blakey a few years later, rejoining the drummer's band (which was called Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, and was no longer a collective) in the spring and summer of 1959. He also hired Blakey to play on two of his Blue Note solo albums recorded in 1960.
29 de ago. de 2018 · Hank Mobley died in Philadelphia on May 30, 1986, aged 55, ironically at the very same time as his classic Blue Note recordings were beginning to reappear on CD.
28 de nov. de 2019 · Much of his best work has been assembled for the newly released eight-disc box set The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963–70 (Mosaic). The collection illustrates the evolution of Mobley’s instantly identifiable sound and his unique compositional approach.
25 de mar. de 2020 · Mobley, one of the central tenor saxophonists of modern jazz, died in 1986, at the age of fifty-five, more than a decade after he’d stopped regularly recording.
El saxofonista Hank Mobley (Eastman, Georgia, 7 de julio de 1930 – Filadelfia, 30 de mayo de 1986), no tuvo la agresividad de Sonny Rollins, ni el fuego de John Coltrane, ni el toque de Stan Getz, pero posiblemente fuese uno de los saxos tenores mas sensibles del hardbop y del jazz moderno.
