Hank Mobley discography

This is a discography of American jazz musician Hank Mobley.

As leader/co-leader

Year released	Label	Catalog number	Title	Recording date	Credited to	Notes
1955	Blue Note	BLP 5066	Hank Mobley Quartet	1955-03-27		10"
1956	Savoy		The Jazz Message of Hank Mobley	1956-01, 1956-02
1957	Prestige		Mobley's Message	1956-07
1957	Prestige		Mobley's 2nd Message	1956-07
1957	Savoy		Jazz Message No. 2	1956-07, 1956-11
1957	Blue Note	BLP 1540	Hank Mobley with Donald Byrd and Lee Morgan	1956-11-25	Hank Mobley Sextet	AKA Hank Mobley Sextet
1957	Blue Note	BLP 1544	Hank Mobley and His All Stars	1957-01-13
1957	Blue Note	BLP 1550	Hank Mobley with Farmer, Silver, Watkins, Blakey	1957-03-08	Hank Mobley Quintet	AKA Hank Mobley Quintet
1957	Blue Note	BLP 1560	Hank	1957-04-21	Hank Mobley Sextet
1958	Blue Note	BLP 1568	Hank Mobley	1957-06-23
1959	Blue Note	BLP 1574	Peckin' Time	1958-02	Hank Mobley–Lee Morgan
1960	Blue Note	BLP 4031	Soul Station	1960-02-07
1961	Blue Note	BLP 4058	Roll Call	1960-11
1962	Blue Note	BLP 4080	Workout	1961-03
1964	Blue Note	BLP 4149	No Room for Squares	1963-03, 1963-10
1965	Blue Note	BLP 4186	The Turnaround!	1963-03, 1965-02
1966	Blue Note	BLP 4209	Dippin'	1965-06
1967	Blue Note	BLP 4230	A Caddy for Daddy	1965-12
1968	Blue Note	BST 84273	Hi Voltage	1967-10
1968	Blue Note	BST 84288	Reach Out!	1968-01
1970	Blue Note	BST 84329	The Flip	1969-01
1972	Muse		Breakthrough!	1972-02	with Cedar Walton
1979	Blue Note	995	A Slice of the Top	1963-10, 1965-02, 1966-06		(2001)[CD] version includes rec. 1963-03
1980	Blue Note	1045	Thinking of Home	1970-07
1980	Blue Note	1081	Third Season	1967-02		LT series
1980	Blue Note	1620	Poppin'	1957-10
1984	Blue Note	1611	Curtain Call	1957-08	Hank Mobley / Sonny Clark
1984	Blue Note	BST 84425	Far Away Lands	1967-05
1985	Blue Note	BST 84431	Another Workout	1961-03, 1961-12
1986	Blue Note	BST 84435	Straight No Filter	1963-10, 1965-02, 1965-02		(2000)[CD] version includes rec. 1963-03

Live albums

Year released	Label	Title	Recording date	Co-leaders	Notes
1958	Roulette	Monday Night at Birdland	1958-04	with Curtis Fuller, Lee Morgan and Billy Root
1959	Roulette	Another Monday Night at Birdland
2012	Uptown	Newark 1953	1953-09

Compilations

• The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (Mosaic, 1998) – rec. 1955–58
• The Feelin's Good (Blue Note, 2013) – rec. 1963

As sideman

With Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers

• At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (Blue Note, 1956) – rec. 1955
• At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1956) – rec. 1955
• The Jazz Messengers (Columbia, 1956)
• Originally (Columbia, 1982) – rec. 1956
• Just Coolin' (Blue Note, 2020) – rec. 1959
• At the Jazz Corner of the World (Blue Note, 1959)

With Kenny Burrell

• All Night Long (Prestige, 1957) – rec. 1956
• K. B. Blues (Blue Note, 1979) – rec. 1957

With Donald Byrd

• Byrd's Eye View (Transition, 1955)
• Byrd in Flight (Blue Note, 1960)
• A New Perspective (Blue Note, 1963)
• Mustang! (Blue Note, 1966)
• Blackjack (Blue Note, 1967)

With Sonny Clark

• Dial "S" for Sonny (Blue Note, 1957)
• My Conception (Blue Note, 1959)

With Miles Davis

• Someday My Prince Will Come (Columbia, 1961)
• Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (Columbia, 1962) – rec. 1961
• The Complete Blackhawk (Sony, 2003) – rec. 1961

With Kenny Dorham

• Afro-Cuban (Blue Note, 1957) – rec. 1955
• Whistle Stop (Blue Note, 1961)

With Kenny Drew

• This Is New (Riverside, 1957)
• Undercurrent (Blue Note, 1961) – rec. 1960

With Curtis Fuller

• The Opener (Blue Note, 1957)
• Sliding Easy (United Artists, 1959)

With Dizzy Gillespie

• Afro (Norgran, 1954)
• Diz and Getz (Verve, 1955) – rec. 1953
• Dizzy and Strings (Norgran, 1955) – rec. 1954
• Jazz Recital (Norgran, 1956) – rec. 1954-55

With Freddie Hubbard

• Goin' Up (Blue Note, 1961) – rec. 1960
• Blue Spirits (Blue Note, 1967) – rec. 1965-66

With Elvin Jones

• Together! (Atlantic, 1961) also with Philly Joe Jones
• Midnight Walk (Atlantic, 1966)

With Lee Morgan

• Introducing Lee Morgan (Savoy, 1956)
• Lee Morgan Sextet (Blue Note, 1957) – rec. 1956
• Cornbread (Blue Note, 1967) – rec. 1965
• Charisma (Blue Note, 1969) – rec. 1966
• The Rajah (Blue Note, 1985) – rec. 1966

With Max Roach

• The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (Debut, 1954) – rec. 1953
• MAX (Argo, 1958)
• The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (EmArcy, 1959) – rec. 1957-58

With Archie Shepp

• Yasmina, a Black Woman (BYG Actuel, 1969)
• Poem for Malcolm (BYG, 1969)

With Horace Silver

• Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (Blue Note, 1956) – rec. 1954-55
• Silver's Blue (Epic, 1957) – rec. 1956
• 6 Pieces of Silver (Blue Note, 1957) – rec. 1956
• The Stylings of Silver (Blue Note, 1957)

With Jimmy Smith

• A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One (Blue Note, 1957)
• A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume Two (Blue Note, 1957)

With others

• John Coltrane, Zoot Sims & Al Cohn, Tenor Conclave (Prestige, 1957) – rec. 1956
• Art Farmer, Farmer's Market (New Jazz, 1958) – rec. 1956
• Grant Green, I Want to Hold Your Hand (Blue Note, 1966) – rec. 1965
• Johnny Griffin, A Blowin' Session (Blue Note, 1957)
• Herbie Hancock, My Point of View (Blue Note, 1963)
• Elmo Hope, Informal Jazz (Prestige, 1956)
• J. J. Johnson, The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 (Blue Note, 1954)[10"]
• Wynton Kelly, Interpretations (Vee-Jay, 1977)
• Jackie McLean, 4, 5 and 6 (Prestige, 1956)
• Tete Montoliu, I Wanna Talk About You (SteepleChase, 1980)
• Dizzy Reece, Star Bright (Blue Note, 1959)
• Rita Reys, The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (Colombia, 1956) – rec. 1955–56
• Freddie Roach, Good Move! (Blue Note, 1963)
• Doug Watkins, Watkins at Large (Transition, 1956)
• Julius Watkins, Julius Watkins Sextet (Blue Note, 1995) – rec. 1954–55