Hank Mobley
Tenor Sax Solo on
Blues No. 2

About

Taking the 2nd solo, this tenor sax improvisation spans five choruses of the 12-bar blues at a medium-up swing tempo of 181 BPM. The 12-bar blues form provides a familiar harmonic framework that invites inventive melodic and rhythmic exploration. Situated between Miles Davis's trumpet solo and Philly Joe Jones's turn on drums, it occupies a pivotal spot in the arrangement.

Hank Mobley was 30 to 31 years old at the time.