Blue Note Records: Hank Mobley

An essential branch of the Blue Note family tree, Hank Mobley possessed a loose, bluesy sound that kept one foot in the complex musicianship of bebop and another in the rich soil of American R&B. As one of Art Blakey's original Jazz Messengers, he emphasised jazz fundamentals: blues + swing = transcendence. Press play and bask in what Mobley once described as "not a big sound, and not small, but a round sound."