FOR BLUE NOTE, THIS WAS A TRANSITION
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HANK MOBLEY "DIPPIN'"
2011 ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS "THE BLUE NOTE REISSUES", 2LP, 45RPM, 180G VIRGIN VINYL, CATALOG NUMBER AP-84209, #558 OF A SOLD-OUT LIMITED EDITION OF 2,500 COPIES, RECORDED BU RUDY VAN GELDER, MASTERED BY KEVIN GRAY & STEVE HOFFMAN AT ACOUSTECH USING THE ORIGINAL ANALOG BLUE NOTE MASTER TAPES, PRESSED AT RTI, CAMARILLO, CA.
"FOR BLUE NOTE, THIS WAS A PERIOD OF TRANSITION. THE "DIPPIN'" SESSION WAS RECORDED ON 18 JUNE 1965, WHILE BLUE NOTE WAS STILL AN INDEPENDENT RECORD LABEL. BUT BY THE TIME OF THE RECORD'S RELEASE, THE COMPANY HAD BEEN SOLD TO LIBERTY AND CHANGE WAS CREEPING IN."
""DIPPIN'" ITSELF IS A MASTERPIECE OF HIGH QUALITY CONSISTENCY. I SUSPECT ONE OF THE KEY FACTORS IN IT COMING TOGETHER IS THE PRESENCE OF LEE MORGAN, MOBLEY AND MORGAN WERE REGULAR COMPLEMENTARY SPARRING PARTNERS ON EACH OTHERS' RECORDS AND "DIPPIN'" IS A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE PAIRING. MORGAN IS TYPICALLY EBULLIENT, BRASH AND TRIUMPHANT ON THE UP-TEMPO CUTS. NEVER MORE SO THAT DURING HIS SOLO IN THE MIDDLE OF "RECADO BOSSA NOVA" WHICH STARTS INNOCENTLY ENOUGH BUT CLIMAXES WITH MORGAN PILING ON ONE SPARKLING PHRASE AFTER ANOTHER. I ALSO LIKE HOW MABERN SHOWS A GENUINE FEEL FOR LATIN TUNES AND SOME OF HIS COMPING WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN OUT OF PLACE ON A FANIS RECORDS SALSA SESSION! MABERN DIDN'T MAKE MUCH OF A SPLASH AS A LEADER OF HIS OWN RIGHT DURING THE 1960S (JUST A FEW LPS WITH PRESTIGE) BUT WAS OFTEN ONE OF MORGAN'S PREFERRED SIDEMEN AND HE CERTAINLY SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT BOTH MORGAN AND MOBLEY WANTED UNDERNEATH THEM."
"LEE MORGAN, HAROLD MABERN, LARRY RIDLEY AND BILLY HIGGINS JOIN THE GREAT TENOR SAXOPHONIST ON THIS 1965 SESSION FEATURING FOUR MOBLEY ORIGINALS, A BEAUTIFUL BALLAD READING OF "I SEE YOUR FACE BEFORE ME" AND A TERRIFIC VERSION OF "RECADO BOSSA NOVA."
1) THE DIP 2) RECADO BOSSA NOVA 3) THE BREAK THROUGH 4) THE VAMP 5) I SEE YOUR FACE BEFORE ME 6) BALLIN'
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