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Hank Mobley's 1963 album “No Room For Squares” not only boasts one of Reid Miles' most attractive cover designs, but is also a musical masterpiece. The tenor saxophonist had already recorded several hard bop highlights for Blue Note, including “Soul Station” and “Workout,” but “No Room For Squares” was an even more ambitious project in which Mobley further expanded his charisma as a bandleader, improviser, and composer. The album was recorded in two different sessions with different quintet lineups: on March 7, Mobley was accompanied by trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianist Herbie Hancock, double bassist Butch Warren, and drummer Philly Joe Jones, who brought Mobley's original compositions “Up A Step” and “Old World, New Imports” to life in a rousing performance. On October 2, Mobley returned to Rudy Van Gelder's studio, once again with Jones on drums, along with trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Andrew Hill, and double bassist John Ore, to record Mobley's brilliant pieces “Three Way Split” and “No Room For Squares”, as well as two remarkable pieces by Morgan, the beautiful ballad “Carolyn” and the rousing “Me ‘N You”.
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 sessions for “No Room For Squares” took place on March 7 and October 2, 1963 at the Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
1. Three Way Split
2. Carolyn
3. Up A Step
4. Me ‘N You
5. Old World, New Imports