Soul Station

1960 studio album by Hank Mobley

Not to be confused with Seoul Station.

Soul Station

Studio album by

Hank Mobley

Released| Early October 1960[1]
Recorded| February 7, 1960
Studio| Van Gelder Studio
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre| Hard bop
Length| 37:23
Label| Blue Note
BLP 4031
Producer| Alfred Lion
Hank Mobley chronology
| Another Monday Night at Birdland
(1959)  | Soul Station
(1960)  | Roll Call
(1960)

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Soul Station is an album by American jazz saxophonist Hank Mobley recorded on February 7, 1960, and released on Blue Note later that year. Mobley's quartet features rhythm section Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Art Blakey.

## Background

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### Recording

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Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio and rooted in the hard bop style, Mobley's quartet features Art Blakey (his past bandleader in the Jazz Messengers), and two bandmates from his time in the Miles Davis Quintet, Wynton Kelly and Paul Chambers.

### Composition

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The album's bookends are two standards, "Remember" by Irving Berlin and "If I Should Lose You" by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin. Between these standards are four new Mobley compositions, featuring the bluesy title track and the uptempo "This I Dig of You".

### Liner notes

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In the liner notes to the Rudy Van Gelder CD edition, jazz critic Bob Blumenthal explains how the album is understood to be, for Mobley, what Saxophone Colossus or Giant Steps were for Sonny Rollins or John Coltrane respectively. Blumenthal goes on to describe the recording as "one of the finest programs of music on Blue Note or any other label."[2]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [3]
DownBeat| [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide| [5]

AllMusic reviewer Stacia Proefrock concluded: "Overall, this is a stellar set from one of the more underrated musicians of the bop era."[3]

Pete Welding of DownBeat praised the album, calling it "a well-balanced and tasty blowing session that benefits from thoughtful preparation, [and which] finds the tenor saxophonist fronting a quartet composed of three of the finest rhythm men in the business."[4]

## Track listing

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All compositions by Hank Mobley, except where noted.

Side 1No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Remember"| Irving Berlin| 5:41
2.| "This I Dig of You"|  | 6:25
3.| "Dig Dis"|  | 6:08

Side 2No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Split Feelin's"|  | 4:55
2.| "Soul Station"|  | 9:06
3.| "If I Should Lose You"|

* Ralph Rainger
* Leo Robin

| 5:08

## Personnel

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### Musicians

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* Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone
* Wynton Kelly – piano
* Paul Chambers – bass
* Art Blakey – drums

### Technical personnel

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* Alfred Lion – producer
* Rudy Van Gelder – recording engineer, mastering
* Reid Miles – cover design
* Francis Wolff – photography
* Joe Goldberg – liner notes

## Charts

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Chart performance for Soul Station Chart (2021)  | Peak
position

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Swedish Vinyl Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[7] | 5

## References

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1. ^ "Reviews and Ratings...", Billboard. October 10, 1960.
2. ^ Blumenthal, Bob. Soul Station. 1999, Blue Note Records 7243 4 95343 2 2, liner notes.
3. ^ a b Soul Station at AllMusic
4. ^ a b Welding, Pete (December 8, 1960). "Hank Mobley: Soul Station". DownBeat. p. 44.
5. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. US: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 143\. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1013\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
7. ^ "Veckolista Vinyl, vecka 15" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved April 18, 2021.

## External links

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* Hank Mobley's 'Soul Station' At 60: How The Tenor Saxophonist's Mellow Masterpiece Inspires Jazz Musicians In 2020 on Grammy Awards

* v
* t
* e

Hank Mobley

Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release, except for the compilation section

As leader
or co-leader|

* Newark 1953 (1953 [2012])
* Hank Mobley Quartet (1955)
* The Jazz Message of Hank Mobley (1956)
* Mobley's Message (Prestige, 1956)
* Mobley's 2nd Message (Prestige, 1956)
* Jazz Message No. 2 (Savoy, 1956)
* Hank Mobley Sextet (1956)
* Hank Mobley and His All Stars (1957)
* Hank Mobley Quintet (1957)
* Hank (1957)
* Hank Mobley (1957)
* Curtain Call (1957)
* Poppin' (1957)
* Peckin' Time (1958)
* Monday Night at Birdland (1958)
* Another Monday Night at Birdland (1959)
* Soul Station (1960)
* Roll Call (1960)
* Workout (1961)
* Another Workout (1961)
* No Room for Squares (1963)
* Straight No Filter (1963–65)
* The Turnaround! (1964)
* Dippin' (1965)
* A Caddy for Daddy (1965)
* A Slice of the Top (1966)
* Far Away Lands (1967)
* Third Season (1967)
* Hi Voltage (1967)
* Reach Out! (1968)
* The Flip (1969)
* Thinking of Home (1970)
* Breakthrough! (1972)

With
others|

* At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1955)
* At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1955)
* The Jazz Messengers (Art Blakey, 1956)
* Originally (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1956 [1982])
* At the Jazz Corner of the World (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1959)
* All Night Long (Kenny Burrell, 1956)
* K.B. Blues (1957 [1979])
* Byrd's Eye View (Donald Byrd, 1955)
* Byrd in Flight (Donald Byrd, 1960)
* A New Perspective (1963)
* Mustang! (Donald Byrd, 1966)
* Blackjack (Donald Byrd, 1967)
* Dial "S" for Sonny (Sonny Clark, 1957)
* My Conception (Sonny Clark, 1957)
* Someday My Prince Will Come (Miles Davis, 1961)
* In Person Friday and Saturday Nights
at the Blackhawk, Complete (Miles Davis, 1961)
* Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (1961)
* Afro-Cuban (Kenny Dorham, 1955)
* Whistle Stop (Kenny Dorham, 1961)
* This Is New (Kenny Drew, 1957)
* Undercurrent (Kenny Drew, 1960)
* Farmer's Market (Art Farmer, 1956)
* The Opener (Curtis Fuller, 1957)
* Sliding Easy (Curtis Fuller, 1959)
* Afro (Dizzy Gillespie, 1954)
* Dizzy and Strings (Dizzy Gillespie, 1954)
* Jazz Recital (Dizzy Gillespie, 1954–55)
* I Want to Hold Your Hand (Grant Green, 1965)
* A Blowin' Session (Johnny Griffin, 1957)
* My Point of View (Herbie Hancock, 1963)
* Informal Jazz (Elmo Hope, 1956)
* Goin' Up (Freddie Hubbard, 1960)
* Blue Spirits (Freddie Hubbard, 1965)
* The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 (1955)
* Together! (Elvin Jones and Philly Joe Jones, 1961)
* Midnight Walk (Elvin Jones, 1966)
* I Wanna Talk About You (Tete Montoliu, 1980)
* Introducing Lee Morgan (1956)
* Lee Morgan Sextet (1956)
* Cornbread (Lee Morgan, 1965)
* Charisma (1966)
* The Rajah (1966)
* Tenor Conclave (Prestige All Stars, 1957)
* Star Bright (Dizzy Reece, 1959)
* The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956)
* Good Move! (Freddie Roach 1963)
* The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (1953)
* Max Roach + 4 (1956)
* The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1957)
* MAX (Max Roach, 1958)
* Yasmina, a Black Woman (Archie Shepp, 1969)
* Poem for Malcolm (Archie Shepp, 1969)
* Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1954–55)
* Silver's Blue (Horace Silver, 1956)
* 6 Pieces of Silver (Horace Silver, 1956–58)
* The Stylings of Silver (Horace Silver, 1957)
* A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One (1957)
* A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume Two (1957)
* Julius Watkins Sextet (1955)

Compilations|

* The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (1998)
* The Feelin's Good (2013)

Related articles|

* Discography

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