"Alfred Lion would be walking around, (snap) 'Mmm! (snap) 'Ooh!' -- now vait a minute, it don't sving, it don't sving!" So we'd stop and laugh and then come back and slow it down just a bit. Then he'd say, (snap) (snap), "Fine, fine, dot really svings, ja!"
"It was during this 1954-56 period that Mobley began recording on his own; the music is generally considered his finest work"
'Mobley's Message' or ze Savoys?