Hank Mobley - Soul Station (1960) [2004 Blue Note 決定盤1500]

Leonard Feather once famously described Hank Mobley as 'the middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone.' Middleweights never get much respect. But before drugs and general dissipation got him, Mobley recorded some albums for Blue Note in the 1960s that make time stand still. Soul Station exemplifies the suave, flowing melodicism and erotic rhythmic subtlety that made Mobley unique. With a rhythm section for the ages behind him, Mobley delivers profundities of soul and swing now gone from planet Earth.

Tracks:

01. Remember (Berlin) - 5:42
02. This I Dig of You (Mobley) - 6:26
03. Dig Dis (Mobley) - 6:10
04. Split Feelin's (Mobley) - 4:55
05. Soul Station (Mobley) - 9:08
06. If I Should Lose You (Robin-Rainger) - 5:09

Personnel:

Hank Mobley - tenor saxophone
Wynton Kelly - piano
Paul Chambers - bass
Art Blakey - drums