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RE: Hank Mobley...by request


"...no artist on record labels like Bluenote or Prestige had the authority to decide when to record/release an album."

Perhaps not authority, but that didn't necessarily stop them from bugging the hell out of the label owners/producers to do recordings. According to Gene Lees, who was very close to Bill Evans, the pianist constantly tried to wheedle sessions at Riverside to generate cash to satisfy his habit. Frankly, I don't have any information to support the idea that Mobley did that, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility.

It's clear that Blue Note had a sizable catalog of unreleased recordings that didn't see the light of day until years after the sessions went down. I have no idea what the reasons were for that situation. It may simply have been that there were quality concerns or that they just had too many similar recordings on the market already. (Obviously not all of these were Mobley's.) And apparently some of it was related to the sale of the label. But this does make me wonder about how at least some of the sessions came about in the first place.

P.S. Not to get all nitpicky on you, but it is Blue Note, not Bluenote.

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