This has been for decades my best friend, my best consolation during dark times.
Believe me, I had so much suffering from mid september until now, albeit I did a great recording session and get better musically every day I grow more, but it was just such a bizarre year with such an extreme mixture of tormented soul, suffering, tears, to the highest peaks of enjoyment and love, it made me very very thin but strong on piano.
This music, the HEALING SONG is what I needed now that there is hope for a glimpse of "normal life" again, and it is what I needed, I listened closely to each note of this most wonderful music and it let my tears flow, and flow and flow, streams of tears, believe me !
Is this the one, where Jackie McLean plays so fine on a Bossa, something he rarely did ? There was too many Hank Mobley Albums, I love him I love him I love him, but I don´t listen to ALL of his albums.
Hank Mobley, especially "Soul Station" and "Workout" are my choices if I once listen to straight ahead jazz, which I don´t do very very often anymore, since I hear other things in my head, more into Free Jazz and jazzrock/funk, late 60´s - early 80´s .....