Peckin' Time

Artist: Hank Mobley
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 077778157427
EAN: 0077778157427
ASIN: B000005HC0

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

High And Flighty
High And Flighty (Alt. Take)
Speak Low
Speak Low (Alt. Take)
Peckin' Time
Stretchin' Out
Stretchin' Out (Alt. Take)
Git-Go Blues

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Customer Reviews:

Mobley in Peak Form, Prodded by Persip.......2006-11-22

This session, recorded three years after monster Mobley sessions like "Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers" (on Columbia) and "Art Blakey at the Cafe Bohemia," represents mature Mobley, as melodious, inventive, soulful-sounding as ever, all translating into the best jazz you'll ever hear. Right from the opener, "High and Flighty," Mobs comes charging out of gate, to much the same felicitous effect as he does on Irving Berlin's "Remember," the opening track on "Soul Station." He's the most pure, agenda-less, unaffected, in-the-moment player of them all, and this session is once again a painful reminder that compared to Stitt, Dexter, Trane, and Jug, whom I caught dozens of times, I had so little opportunity to hear the "real" Hank while he was alive (the man was wasted by the early 1970s, and not merely a victim of his own vices).

Mobley's very sound expresses what Baldwin writes in "Sonny's Blues" (the best story about the jazz life) when the narrator, during the sacramental session in the club where his brother-musician works, has his epiphany about art, jazz, and the African-American experience: in that moment of creative inspiration the musician embodies, or makes his own, the flowering beauty issuing from the darkness and suffering of a whole line of descent.

Lee Morgan is merely fine, not up to K.D. or Byrd as yet but capable of holding his own. And he's refreshingly straightforward on this date (no Diz tricks or hint of affected posing). The rhythm section is the redoubtable Miles Davis pair of Chambers and Kelly along with a refreshing change from the usual Blue Note house drummer (Blakey, Higgins, Taylor, Haynes, Philly Joe). Charlie Persip shows that despite his abundant technique he can, when given the chance, play "with" guys rather feel the need to showboat. Like Blakey he's a little forward on the beat, but with a crisper, cleaner, and busier sound on drum heads tuned tighter than the norm. Above all, he swings and keeps the game in play through each and every take. (I know some listeners who hate the inclusion of out-takes; with musicians like these, however, twice can be twice as nice.)

Further testimony to the substance of the music on this occasion is that Van Gelder's distortion of the piano sound doesn't prove an obstacle to enjoying the music for a change. Hope EMI doesn't mess with this one and reissue an "RVG Remaster." Just reissue it. No "improvements" necessary, probably not even possible.

Time To Buy "Peckin' Time".......2000-07-18

The album cover would make you think "Peckin' Time" is as much Lee Morgan's album as it is Hank Mobley's. But as much as those two were affiliated together in the late 50s, this is definitely Hank's effort as he contributed four of the five compositions. Joined in this quintet by formidable rhythm section of Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Charlie Persip, Hank and Lee swing in the classic style of 50s Blue Note albums. Hank would hook up again with Wynton and P.C. on the early 60s classics "Soul Stataion," "Roll Call," and "Workout," and this, his last recording in the 50s, is slightly below those three in overall quality. However, with only two of Mobley's nine Blue Note albums from the 50s available on CD, this is an excellent look at the early years of an underrated jazz giant.

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