Hardbopjazz

Happy Birthday.

One of the greats turns 80 on May 4th.

NPR article Is there a holy grail video you been you've heard about and have been looking for, that you hope to stumble across? I probably vacillate about this but I'm pretty comfortable stating that I desperately want to find video of saxophonist Hank Mobley. I have extensive contacts from around the world so when I tell you that I know of no one who's seen any video of Hank Mobley that is saying a lot. I've been looking for Mobley video for at least 25-30 years and I'm still looking and I'm still hopeful. Mobley spent a couple of years in Paris hanging and playing with Philly Joe Jones and also Art Taylor and I truly believe that some French TV station has footage of these jazz giants playing together. It's just a matter of time and it'll probably happen by accident when we at Jazz Icons are reviewing some archival footage of, say, Bud Powell in Paris and all of a sudden we notice there's a saxophonist in the band. IT'S HANK MOBLEY!!! Actually years ago I had a similar real experience in reviewing some Bud Powell footage and determined that the saxophonist of one song was Lucky Thompson. Similarly, I had some footage of Lucky Thompson playing in France with a female pianist who I realized was Alice McLeod, later to be known as Alice Coltrane. So, Felix, these miraculous discoveries do happen. http://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2009/06/jazz_icons_video_series_treasu_1.html NPR article Is there a holy grail video you been you've heard about and have been looking for, that you hope to stumble across? I probably vacillate about this but I'm pretty comfortable stating that I desperately want to find video of saxophonist Hank Mobley. I have extensive contacts from around the world so when I tell you that I know of no one who's seen any video of Hank Mobley that is saying a lot. I've been looking for Mobley video for at least 25-30 years and I'm still looking and I'm still hopeful. Mobley spent a couple of years in Paris hanging and playing with Philly Joe Jones and also Art Taylor and I truly believe that some French TV station has footage of these jazz giants playing together. It's just a matter of time and it'll probably happen by accident when we at Jazz Icons are reviewing some archival footage of, say, Bud Powell in Paris and all of a sudden we notice there's a saxophonist in the band. IT'S HANK MOBLEY!!! Actually years ago I had a similar real experience in reviewing some Bud Powell footage and determined that the saxophonist of one song was Lucky Thompson. Similarly, I had some footage of Lucky Thompson playing in France with a female pianist who I realized was Alice McLeod, later to be known as Alice Coltrane. So, Felix, these miraculous discoveries do happen. http://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2009/06/jazz_icons_video_series_treasu_1.html

Video tape was introduced in 1956 and CBS, NBC started to use it. So maybe the Tonight Show appearance exists somewhere.

You can only see the pianist and bass player. Who are they? https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=sg1-aidI_xo

There is an audio recording of Hank Mobley with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers live on the Tonight Show from 1956. I have the audio. I wonder if a video of this exists? Video tape came out around this time.