HANK MOBLEY "MOBLEY'S MESSAGE" AP, LE, NE (#66), SO, RVG, 180G, NEW/SEALED

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                                                                       HANK MOBLEY "MOBLEY'S MESSAGE"
2012 ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS REMASTER OF THE 1956 PRESTIGE RELEASE, LIMITED EDITION, NUMBERED ADDITION (#66), SOLD-OUT EDITION, 180G VIRGIN VINYL, RECORDED AT RUDY VAN GELDER'S STUDIO, REMASTERED BY KEVIN GRAY, CUT FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOG MASTER TAPES, PRESSED AT QUALITY RECORD PRESSINGS AND PLATED BY GARY SALSTROM.
"CRITIC LEONARD FEATHER DESCRIBED HANK MOBLEY AS 'THE MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE TENOR SAXOPHONE', MEANING THAT HIS TONE WASN'T AS AGGRESSIVE AND THICK AS JOHN COLTRANE OR SONNY ROLLINS, BUT NEITHER WAS IT AS SOFT AND COOL AS STAN GETZ OR LESTER YOUNG. ON THIS PRESTIGE ALBUM, MOBLEY DELIVERS HIS SIGNATURE SWINGING STYLE IN QUINTET AND SEXTET FORMATION."
"RECORDED ON JULY 20, 1956, THIS PRESTIGE RELEASE FEATURES PERFORMANCES BY MOBLEY, DONALD BYRD, BARRY HARRIS, DOUG WATKINS AND ART TAYLOR WITH JACKIE MCLEAN AS GUEST ON "AU PRIVAVE". MOBLEY HELPED INAUGURATE THE HARD BOP MOVEMENT: JAZZ THAT BALANCED SOPHISTICATION AND SOULFULNESS, COMPLEXITY AND EARTHY SWING, AND WHOSE LOOSE STRUCTURE ALLOWED FOR EXTENDED IMPROVISATIONS."
"HANK'S SOUND IS A DISTINCTIVE ONE WHICH SERVES WELL THE EMOTIONAL CONTENT AND RHYTHMIC BENT OF HIS IDEAS.. ITS TEXTURE IS MORE LIKE A PULLING IN THAN BLOWING OUT AND ONCE PROMPTED IRA GITLER TO WRITE AFTER HEARING HIM AT A CLUB, "HE SOUNDED AS IF HE WAS INHALING NOTES FROM THE FIELD BETWEEN THE MICROPHONE AND THE BELL OF HIS HORN AND TRANSMITTING THEM THROUGH THE LOUDSPEAKER AT OUR LEFT BY MEANS OF MAGNETIC REED."
"MOBLEY'S MESSAGE IS DELIVERED IN THREE DIFFERENT SIZE ENVELOPES. FOUR ARE BY THE QUINTET IN WHICH HANK IS HELPED BY TELEGRAPHER DONALD BYRD AND HIS "SENDING" TRUMPET. THEY DISSEMINATE THE INFORMATION OF TWO DICTUMS FROM BOP'S PALMY DAYS, BUD POWELL'S "BOUNCIN'  WITH BUD" AND THELONIOUS MONK'S "52ND STREET THEME" PLUS TWO MORE PERSONAL STATEMENTS, HANK'S "MINOR DISTURBANCE" AND THE GROUP'S "ALTERNATING CURRENT".
"FOR CHARLIE PARKER'S BLUES, "AU PRIVAVE", THE GROUP BECOMES A SEXTET WITH THE ADDITION OF THE YOUNG HERALD OF THE ALTO SAX, JACKIE MCLEAN. HANK IS THE SOLE HORN ON "LITTLE GIRL BLUES". HELPING IN ALL DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT ARE THE EVERSWINGING DUO OF ART TAYLOR AND DOUG WATKINS, JOINED HERE BY ANOTHER IN THE ILLUSTRIOUS LINE OF EMIGRES FROM DETROIT, PIANIST BARRY HARRIS. EXTREMELY REMINISCENT OF THE BUD POWELL OF A BYGONE DECADE BUT WITH A LIGHTER TOUCH, BARRY SHINES, LIKE THE YOUNG STAR THAT HE IS, ALL OVER THIS RECORD, THEREBY FULLY ILLUMINATING ALL MESSAGES."