Hank Mobley (tenor sax); Wynton Kelly (piano); Paul Chambers (bass); Art Blakey (drums).
(By Lance).
After listening to Freddie Hubbard's Open Sesame last night and, subsequently, some of the current stuff going around it reminded me - as if I needed reminding - just how wonderful the Blue Note back catalogue is. So I decided I'd listen to a Blue Note album a night until the world is free when there will be Blue Notes over the white cliffs of Dover, just you wait and see - maybe we could persuade Dame Vera (103 n.o.) to change the lyric of the original.
However, I digress. Soul Station is rated by Mobley's biographer, Derek Ansell, as one of the greatest LPs to emerge from the label, Ronnie Scott cited it as his favourite Mobley album and, I have to add, that it's mine too. I think just about every tenor player has a copy of the disc judging by the number of times This I Dig of You (track 2) is called at jam sessions.
Mobley's sound was just so perfect (to my ears) not as hard as most of the other Blue Note tenor men but more muscular than say the guys out on the West Coast. The rhythm section too was tops with Blakey driving it along, Kelly and Chambers solid in solo and support.
Recorded just over 60 years ago (Feb. 7, 1960) it is one of the undisputed masterpieces of jazz.
Lance
Remember; This I Dig of You; Dig This; Split Feelin's; Soul Station; If I Should Lose You.
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