No Room for Squares

No Room for Squares
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 1964[1]
RecordedMarch 7, 1963 (#3, 6)
October 2, 1963 (all others)
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz
Length42:12
LabelBlue Note
BST 84149
ProducerAlfred Lion
Hank Mobley chronology
Another Workout
(1985)
No Room for Squares
(1964)
The Turnaround!
(1965)

No Room for Squares is an album by jazz tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley recorded on March 7 & October 2, 1963 and released on the Blue Note label. It features performances by Mobley, trumpeters Lee Morgan and Donald Byrd, pianists Andrew Hill and Herbie Hancock, bassists John Ore and Butch Warren, and drummer Philly Joe Jones. Material recorded at the March 7 session was also included on The Turnaround! with the entire session collected for the first time on the 1989 CD edition of Straight No Filter. The 1989 CD issue of No Room for Squares collects the entire October 7 session save an alternate take of "Carolyn" that was first issued in 2019 as part of The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70.