Hank Mobley – No Room for
Squares
Blue Note Records. You just can't go
wrong. The album does not have a dud track or a dull moment, starting
with Lee Morgan's trumpet and Hank Mobley's tenor sax blowing the
introduction to Three Way Split, and finishing with alternate
takes of Carolyn and No Room for Squares, on the CD
version, anyway.
There's not a big name Mobley didn't
work with, including Miles Davis, briefly replacing John Coltrane.
Me 'n' You is my favourite, led
in by the drums, bass, and piano rhythm section, then trumpet and sax
start blowing, the solo's are inventive, particularly Lee Morgan's,
and the seven minutes and seventeen seconds is over in a flash.
Joe Henderson – Page One
Like many other Blue Note albums,
there's six tracks. So the original vinyl version would've had three
numbers on each side. DLL was horrified, recently, by the idea of the
7” single. “So” she deducted, “you have to get up and change
the record after every song?”. Er...yeah. What primitive times
BLISS and I have had to live through, eh?
Joe Henderson's debut album as a band
leader and composer, there's a bit of never bettered about Page One.
The Illmatic syndrome. No need for a page two.
Blue Note
Sometimes, I have to dig out and listen
again to remind myself just how wonderful the Blue Nate back
catalogue is.
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