"Alfred Lion would be walking around, (snap) 'Mmm! (snap)  'Ooh!' -- now vait a minute, it don't sving, it don't sving!"  So we'd stop and laugh and then come back and slow it down just a bit.  Then he'd say, (snap) (snap), "Fine, fine, dot really svings, ja!"  
 
  
 
 
 
"It was during this 1954-56 period that Mobley began recording on his own; the music is generally considered his finest work" 
 
 'Mobley's Message' or ze Savoys?