HANK MOBLEY • PECKIN´ TIME • ORIGINAL 1959 MONO BLUE NOTE 1574 RVG EAR NM
  $   1,600

 


$ 1600 Sold For
Apr 8, 2016 Sold Date
Mar 29, 2016 Start Date
$   99 Start price
29   Number Of Bids
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Description

 









Tracklist

• HIGH AND FLIGHTY

• SPEAK LOW

• PECKIN´ TIME

• STRETCHIN´ OUT

• GIT-GO BLUES


 

Recording Data

Recorded at – Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, February 9, 1958


Credits

Bass – PAUL CHAMBERS
Drums – CHARLIE PERSIP
Piano – WYNTON KELLY
Tenor Saxophone – HANK MOBLEY
Trumpet – LEE MORGAN




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 ALBUM, RELEASED IN 1959, CAME IN THE MIDST OF WHAT WAS A PERIOD OF WHIRLWIND CREATIVITY FOR MOBLEY. . . 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 SLOW”, 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,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 WONDERFUL ALBUM IS HERE OFFERED IN CRISP CONDITION, LAMINATED COVER IS FREE OF WRITING, SEAMS ARE SHARP. DEEP GROOVE VINYL RECORD HAS 47 WEST 63RD NYC ADDRESS ON LABEL BOTH SIDES AND APPEARS HARDLY PLAYED, I JUST SEE A COUPLE OF LIGHT SUPERFICIAL MARKS ON SIDE TWO THAT ARE TOTALLY INAUDIBLE, VERY STRONG LISTENING PLEASURE. “RVG” (STAMPED), “PLASTYLITE”  (EAR) SYMBOL AND  MATRICES  BN-LP-1574-A / BN-LP-1574-B  ETCHED IN THE TRAIL-OFF DEAD WAX.




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