I’m working my way through Hank Mobley’s solos on The Jazz Message of Hank Mobley and this is the next installment of sharing that process. Cattin’ is a 12-bar blues in Bb written by Mobley. As you can see on the leadsheet, the 5th-8th measures have a note to play an improvised fill. On the recording, Donald Byrd plays the fill on the 1st chorus and Hank Mobley plays it on the out chorus.
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