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Workout (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) Vinyl

Vinyl 1LP
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Hank Mobley's Workout arrives in the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series, and the title is no exaggeration: this 1962 session finds the tenor man in muscular, deeply swinging form.

Mobley often gets described as the middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone, too warm for the shouters and too fiery for the balladeers. While a member of Miles Davis's band, he cut this date in 1961 at Van Gelder Studio with producer Alfred Lion and a band that reads like a hard bop dream team: Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, Philly Joe Jones on drums and Grant Green adding glowing guitar.

The title track Workout comes out of the gate at a sprint, Mobley's lines rolling over Philly Joe's crackling ride cymbal. Uh Huh settles into a greasy, knowing groove, while Smokin' lives up to its name with crisp exchanges between horn and guitar.

Then there's The Best Things In Life Are Free, a standard Mobley reshapes with buoyant, conversational phrasing, and Greasin' Easy, a relaxed blues that lets Green's single-note lines sing.

A cornerstone of hard bop and one of Mobley's finest hours, Workout sounds as lively now as it did when it first appeared, and this edition belongs among the essentials of any Blue Note collection.

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