Hank Mobley - Up a Step (1963)
Philly Joe Jones was so on for this session—a session that includes some of my favorite all-time jazz cuts—it becomes a musical moment in time where a player lifts the playing of everyone around him into the stratosphere. The rat-a-tat-tat of the snare drum is so singular, you know it can’t be anyone else back there behind the trap kit.
This cut—recorded a few days after Mobley participated in Donald Byrd’s A New Perspective and a few days before he contributed to Herbie Hancock’s My Point of View—captures Mobley’s hard bop at its zenith, with a hard-swinging head, deft soloing from Byrd and Hancock, and Mobley’s about face to a more economical, austere mid-60s solo approach, sacrificing more notes for more feeling.
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Beautiful words.
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