Hank Mobley Poppin' on English ebay

[Shrdlu]

every time i think of this album, i always picture mobley playing a baritone sax. why is that?

Hank did play the baritone at times. I read in some album notes (maybe the Mosaic booklet) that he played baritone and other instruments in someone's band in the early 50s.

I just heard the Mulligan/Getz album for the first time, and Stanley plays (Gerry's) baritone real well on three tracks. He sounds very convincing. I assume he occasionally played it to fill in for the regular baritone players when he was in the big bands. Gerry had one of those Conns with the big sound, from about the 30s. (The Selmers don't have as good a sound.)

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

early 50s? well i thought i heard he played bari a lil in the 80s when he was playin w/ duke jordan. ...i think it was clairnet he was playing the 2 weeks he was playin w/ Duke Ellington, or maybe he was playing the clairnet part on sax- i dont rememebr now