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Hank Mobley

Among the Blue Notice label’s definitive hard bop performers, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley remains to be somewhat underappreciated for his straightforward, swinging design. Any characterization of Mobley invariably starts with critic Leonard Feather’s assertion that he was the “middleweight champ from the tenor saxophone,” and therefore his firmness wasn’t as …

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