Soul Station
Context
Composition by Mobley and the longest track on the album (over nine minutes), a blues that gives the record its title. Recorded in a quartet with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Art Blakey, Soul Station is often considered Mobley's best recording.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Hard bop, Soul jazz, boogaloo. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).