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Soul Station
Soul Station
Studio album by Hank Mobley
Released	Early October 1960
Recorded	February 7, 1960
Studio	Van Gelder Studio; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre	Hard bop
Length	37:23
Label	Blue Note; BLP 4031
Producer	Alfred Lion
Hank Mobley chronology

Soul Station is an album by American jazz saxophonist Hank Mobley recorded on February 7, 1960 and released on Blue Note later that year. Mobley's quartet features rhythm section Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Art Blakey.

Background

Recording

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio and rooted in the hard bop style, Mobley's quartet features Art Blakey (his past bandleader in the Jazz Messengers), and two bandmates from his time in the Miles Davis Quintet, Wynton Kelly and Paul Chambers.

Composition

The album's bookends are two standards, "Remember" by Irving Berlin and "If I Should Lose You" by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin. Between these standards are four new Mobley compositions, featuring the bluesy title track and the uptempo "This I Dig of You".

Liner notes

In the liner notes to the Rudy Van Gelder CD edition, jazz critic Bob Blumenthal explains how the album is understood to be, for Mobley, what Saxophone Colossus or Giant Steps were for Sonny Rollins or John Coltrane respectively. Blumenthal goes on to describe the recording as "one of the finest programs of music on Blue Note or any other label."^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
DownBeat	^[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[6]

AllMusic reviewer Stacia Proefrock concluded: "Overall, this is a stellar set from one of the more underrated musicians of the bop era."^[3]

Pete Welding of DownBeat praised the album, calling it "a well-balanced and tasty blowing session that benefits from thoughtful preparation, [and which] finds the tenor saxophonist fronting a quartet composed of three of the finest rhythm men in the business."^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Hank Mobley, except where noted.

Side 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Remember"	Irving Berlin	5:41
2.	"This I Dig of You"		6:25
3.	"Dig Dis"		6:08

Side 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Split Feelin's"		4:55
2.	"Soul Station"		9:06
3.	"If I Should Lose You"	Ralph Rainger Leo Robin	5:08

Personnel

Musicians

Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone
Wynton Kelly – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Art Blakey – drums

Technical personnel

Alfred Lion – producer
Rudy Van Gelder – recording engineer, mastering
Reid Miles – cover design
Francis Wolff – photography
Joe Goldberg – liner notes

Charts

Chart performance for *Soul Station*
Chart (2021)	Peak position
Swedish Vinyl Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[7]	5

References

^ "Reviews and Ratings...", Billboard. October 10, 1960.
^ Blumenthal, Bob. Soul Station. 1999, Blue Note Records 7243 4 95343 2 2, liner notes.
^ ^a ^b Soul Station at AllMusic
^ ^a ^b Welding, Pete (December 8, 1960). "Hank Mobley: Soul Station". DownBeat. p. 44.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. US: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 143. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1013. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ "Veckolista Vinyl, vecka 15" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved April 18, 2021.