At any rate he appears on six of Mobley’s 1960s records.ĬD2 begins with three alternate takes from the No Room For Squares session followed by the six pieces that made up the album The Turnaround. Morgan is all fire and brimstone on his featured tracks and with his inventive twists and turns he was probably Mobley’s ideal front-line partner.
DONALD BYRD THE THIRD WORLD RAR FULL
Donald Byrd and Morgan share the trumpet duties on 15 tracks, including alternate takes and it is good to hear these two albums in full and not as the bits and pieces Blue Note put out in originally. Lee Morgan’s Carolyn is a typical melancholy ballad from the trumpeter on which both he and Mobley exercise their ballad playing skills fruitfully. Mobley charges joyfully through No Room with Philly Joe whisking up a rhythmic storm behind him and there is a touch of soul blues on Up A Step. Hank’s sound had become firmer and stronger since 1960 and he was obviously in his element with rhythm players like Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren and his old friend Philly Joe Jones.
No Room is thought of as one of Hank’s best sets, comparable favourably to the 1960-61 masterworks. Two tracks were previously issued as part of Mobley’s No Room For Squares, which is presented here in full, including alternate takes. The collection begins with six tracks that eventually were issued on a Music Matters LP as The Feeling’s Good. Dealing as it does with 1963-70, it doesn’t include the three masterworks, generally considered to be Hank’s best three – Soul Station, Roll Call and Workout, 1960-61 – which would have had to start any full 1960s Mobley retrospective. It follows on from Mosaic’s previous six-disc set of complete 1950s sessions (MD6-181), now out of print. This comprehensive eight-disc set covers Mobley’s last great period as a Blue Note leader on records. Mosaic MD8-268, featuring Hank Mobley from The Turnaround session at Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 5 February 1965
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