Reach Out

by Hank Mobley

Reach Out cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1968
  • Label: Blue Note
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:59
  • Community rating: 3.03/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Reach Out' features tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley adopting a more commercial soul jazz framework, covering several contemporary pop hits. The arrangements maintain a hard bop edge, seamlessly bridging modern pop melodies with sophisticated jazz improvisation.

Genres

Descriptors: Instrumental, improvisation, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Reach Out (I'll Be There) (6:49)
  2. Up Over And Out (5:52)
  3. Lookin' East (5:19)
  4. Goin' Out Of My Head (7:25)
  5. Good Pickin's (5:30)
  6. Beverly (7:01)

Credits

  • Hank Mobley - primary artist, tenor saxophone, written-by
  • Bob Cranshaw - bass
  • Forlenza Venosa Associates - cover
  • Billy Higgins - drums
  • George Benson - guitar
  • LaMont Johnson - piano, written-by
  • Woody Shaw - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Holland-Dozier-Holland - written-by
  • Francis Wolff - photography by, producer, photography

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