Hank Mobley - Peckin' Time (RVG Edition)
ARTIST.....: Hank Mobley
TITLE......: Peckin' Time (RVG Edition)
LABEL......: Blue Note Records
URL........: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7734832
RIP DATE...: Oct-11-2008
STORE DATE.: Sep-16-2008
GENRE......: Jazz
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 89,1 MB
Track Listing:
01 - High And Flighty 06:06
02 - Speak Low 07:09
03 - Peckin' Time 06:49
04 - Stretchin' Out 09:01
05 - Git-Go Blues 12:24
06 - High And Flighty (Alternate Take) 06:31
07 - Speak Low (Alternate Take) 07:10
08 - Stretchin' Out (Alternate Take) 06:47
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61:57 min
Release Notes:
Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley was overshadowed by more influential
tenors such as Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane during his career,
but although he wasn't deliberately flashy or particularly
innovative, his concisely measured, round sax tone made him the
perfect ensemble player and he was a fine writer, as well, a
talent who has often been undervalued and overlooked. The Peckin'
Time session was recorded February 9, 1958 (the LP was issued a
year later) and came in the midst of what was a period of
whirlwind creativity for Mobley, who recorded work for the Savoy
and Prestige imprints as well as six full albums for Blue Note
(two were never released ù it was not that uncommon for Blue Note
to stockpile sessions at the time) in a little more than a year's
time (later Blue Note albums like Soul Station and Roll Call were
still well in the future). For this session, Mobley found himself
working with a young Lee Morgan on trumpet and in front of a fluid
rhythm section that included pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul
Chambers, and drummer Charlie Persip, and it's solid stuff, bright
and always energetic. All but one of the tracks, a rendering of
Kurt Weill's "Speak Low," were written by Mobley, and again, his
hidden strength was always his writing, and it should probably
come as no surprise that the best two tracks here, the title tune
"Peckin' Time" and the wonderful "Stretchin' Out," were both
penned by Mobley. It all adds up to a fine program, and if Mobley
didn't push the envelope a whole lot, his lyrical and economical
playing was always appropriate and graceful, and that's certainly
the case here. [This RVG edition adds alternate versions of
"Stretchin' Out," "Speak Low," and "High and Flighty" to the
sequence as bonus tracks.]