| Thinking of Home | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Hank Mobley |
| Cover: | Thinking of Home.jpg |
| Released: | 1980 |
| Recorded: | July 31, 1970 |
| Studio: | Van Gelder Studio Englewood Cliffs, NJ |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 42:55 |
| Label: | Blue Note |
| Producer: | Duke Pearson, Francis Wolff |
| Prev Title: | The Flip |
| Prev Year: | 1969 |
| Next Title: | Breakthrough! |
| Next Year: | 1972 |
Thinking of Home is an album by American jazz saxophonist Hank Mobley, recorded on July 31, 1970, but not released by Blue Note until 1980.[1] [2] The sextet features trumpeter Woody Shaw, pianist Cedar Walton, guitarist Eddie Diehl, bassist Mickey Bass, and drummer Leroy Williams. This was Mobley's 26th (and final) recording for Blue Note.
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states, "It is only fitting that Hank Mobley would record one of the last worthwhile Blue Note albums before its artistic collapse (it would not be revived until the 1980s) for his consistent output helped define the label's sound in the 1960s".[3]
On All About Jazz, Richton Guy Thomas wrote, "this is a fitting farewell session. It features the powerful trumpet playing of Woody Shaw and the exciting pianist Cedar Walton. Hank Mobley's playing has a fire that ought to remind you of the Jazz Messengers, as it should since he was one of the original members of the group ... Thinking of Home should remind diehard jazz fans (and enlighten those newer to the genre) that Mobley was an innovative and stimulating tenor saxophonist who consistently swung."[4]