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Hank Mobley is a House and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Cedar Walton, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach. Those roots explain a lot about how Hank Mobley arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk and Art Farmer, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bossanova and Johnny Griffin, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 17 connections around Hank Mobley, reaching back through Cedar Walton and forward to Bossanova. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Henry Mobley was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone, that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Lester Young, and his style that was laid-back, subtle and melodic, especially in contrast with players such as Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. The critic Stacia Proefrock claimed him "one of the most underrated musicians of the bop era." Mobley's compositions include "Double Exposure", "Soul Station", and "Dig Dis".
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Hank Mobley grew out of Cedar Walton, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey and Dizzy Gillespie, shares an orbit with Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter and Thelonious Monk, went on to shape Bossanova and Johnny Griffin. 17 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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