Did anyone listen to Saturday’s (14 April 2018) Jazz Record
Requests on BBC Radio 3?
A listener asked for a track by Hank Mobley and Shafi Hadi,
apparently partly out of an interest in discovering what happened to the
latter. Could this be a trending enquiry… whatever happened to Shafi Hadi
(Curtis Porter)? I’d be interested to hear whether the great British
jazz-listening public is able to provide a few nuggets of enlightenment.
Hopefully there’ll be a follow up in due course.
The track played was a lovely and archetypical example of
Hadi’s alto playing, written by him and titled “Mighty Moe and Joe.” Recorded
on 23 June 1957, the track featured Bill Hardman (t) Shafi Hadi (as) Hank
Mobley (ts) Sonny Clark (p) Paul Chambers (b) Art Taylor (d). From the Mosaic
label album “Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions” the track was 6
minutes 57 seconds of pure honeyed-single-malt-and-asparagus delight.
That edition of Jazz Record Requests is available on BBC
iPlayer and will be for the next few weeks. Thanks to Alyn Shipton for choosing
that listener’s request. And if you know more about Shafi Hadi, please do email
to let me know.
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