tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752666223633131197.post5682270586379762685..comments2024-03-27T09:53:13.770-05:00Comments on Mark My Words: The Music of Miles Davis and Hank Mobley, Part 1: "Someday My Prince Will Come" (1961)Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04638783212215818291noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752666223633131197.post-22033790254728018822018-09-14T16:42:32.783-05:002018-09-14T16:42:32.783-05:00Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it, hopefully you...Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it, hopefully you read the other articles about Miles Davis' albums with Hank Mobley as well. I agree, it doesn't seem like Miles to just wing it and pick someone who he didn't know much about. I really enjoy Hank Mobley as well, he made a lot of great albums for Blue Note, and he was a good songwriter too. I think you're right that Miles maybe needed a player who would contrast with his style more, the way Coltrane and Wayne Shorter did.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04638783212215818291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752666223633131197.post-6920377810588892042018-08-20T21:33:05.363-05:002018-08-20T21:33:05.363-05:00Nice article man. I've always wondered the sam...Nice article man. I've always wondered the same thing about Hank Mobley's time with Miles Davis. It just doesn't seem to add up. It also doesn't seem like Miles to just go with a Tenor player recommended by someone else without listening to said player in depth first, and after a number of auditions and rehearsal. Miles is given alot of credit for meticulously putting bands together with fantastic artistic chemistry (this is still his prime to), so it doesn't seem like Miles to just wing it, so the situation is indeed strange and hard to figure out. I was in a pretty big Hank Mobley phase years ago and I was really loving his sound; His records as a leader, as well as albums where he was a sideman. When I read Miles's negative comments about Hank, I was depressed. It made it hard for me to appreciate the Miles albums that had Hank on them, pretty much ruining them. I think the issue was that Miles and Hank were kind of too similar in certain ways for Miles's liking. Miles's two great Quintets had a tenor sax player contrasted Miles. In Coltrane's case, John couldn't be more different than Miles: As a player, a spiritual seeker and human being in general. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com