Hank's Other Bag – Hank Mobley

This song could be described as a 14-measure blues. The melody is almost entirely pentatonic, repeating a bluesy riff. The IV chord appears in the sixth measure as part of a II-V, continuing in a cycle of 4ths until the turnaround. At the eleventh measure there is a sort of tag or second turnaround, going to A♭ and G7 to create a cyclical form that does not resolve to the tonic at the end.

Both the audio clip and the lead sheet begin on the head. On the recording, there is an intro with counterpoint among the five horns, building up a pyramid chord of stacked fourths for six measures followed by eight measures of drum solo. We feel that this song works equally well without an intro, or with a drum solo intro.