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Hank Mobley was the epitome of the perfect artist for Blue Note in the 1960s. Between 1955 and 1970, the tenor saxophonist was extremely active as a solo artist and sideman. Recorded in 1965 with a first-class sextet consisting of trumpeter Lee Morgan, trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist McCoy Tyner, double bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Billy Higgins, the album “A Caddy For Daddy” was already his 19th (!) recording for Blue Note under his own name and is certainly one of his best. Allmusic awarded the album four and a half out of five stars.
The band's easy camaraderie elevates the music in this set of four Mobley originals and Wayne Shorter's “Venus Di Mildew” to a higher level. The album opens with the catchy title track, a classic mid-'60s Blue Note groove piece driven by Higgins' Boogaloo beat, and also includes lesser-known Mobley pieces such as the rousing minor-key waltz “The Morning After”, the powerful “Ace Deuce Trey” with its unexpected harmonic twists, and the brightly swinging finale “3rd Time Around”, which the band keeps moving with changing time signatures throughout.
As part of the extremely popular “Blue Note 85th Anniversary Reissue Series”, Universal Music Japan presents the sonically impressive remastering of this jazz classic by the legendary Kevin Gray, who is also responsible for the analog reissues of Blue Note US such as “Tone Poet” and “Classic Vinyl” – as a limited-edition Japan only UHQCD with OBI Stripe. The recording session for “A Caddy For Daddy” took place on December 18, 1965 at the Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
UHQCD
1. A Caddy For Daddy
2. The Morning After
3. Venus Di Mildew
4. Ace Deuce Trey
5. 3rd Time Around