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The album is introduced by george tuckers bass on the blue book followed by tommy flanagan, booker ervin, tommy turrentine and zoot sims in that order. Book cooks cd one of the greatest albums on the bethlehem label and one of the first albums as a leader by dusty groove is chicagos online record store. The following is a very interesting article by simon spillett about booker ervin that has been essentially reproduced in jazz profiles. Booker ervin the book cooks featuring zoot sims, tommy. There is nothing contrived about the kind of playing that comes jolting out of booker ervin s tenor saxophone or the great quality of soul reflected through the six tracks on 1960s the book cooks.
Recorded in 1960, it features zoot sims also on tenor sax. Booker ervin the song book full album 1964 mp3 download. The blue book, git it, little jane, the book cooks, largo, poor butterfly. Booker ervin the song book prestige pr 7318 booker ervin, tenor sax. According to steven cerra, the essay appeared in the box set on acrobat, booker ervin. Ervin who has his ballad largo as a feature performs five originals and poor butterfly. The book cooks and cookin are solidly swinging dates, full of ervins strong soloing, with excellent contributions from zoot sims and tommy flanagan on the first.
There is nothing contrived about the kind of playing that comes jolting out of booker ervins tenor saxophone and the great quality of soul reflected on the six tracks of the book cooks. The trance is an album by american jazz saxophonist booker ervin featuring performances recorded in 1965 for the prestige label, with jaki byard on piano, reggie workman on bass, and alan dawson on drums. Provided to youtube by youtube csv2ddex the book cooks booker ervin the book cooks remastered 20. For fans of booker ervin s passionate blowing, this album has a lot to recommend, and the personnel is more than top flight. For interested parties experiencing sticker shock for the prices this collectable is now fetching in the marketplace, know that this very same material has been reissued with two other early ervin efforts as booker ervin sextet, quintet and quartet. A very distinctive tenor with a hard, passionate tone and an emotional style that was still tied to chordal improvisation, booker ervin was a true original. Booker ervin tenor saxophone, tommy flanagan piano, george tucker bass, dannie richmond drums, ira gitler liner notes, teddy charles producer, peter ind recording engineer. Sometimes when he was playing wed shout, cook, book, cook. The book cooks was booker ervins first album under his own name, and it kicked off an early60s hot streak. He would kind of take those notes and make them weave hypnotically. The book cooks was booker ervin s first album under his own name, and it kicked off an early60s hot streak. The book cooks is the debut album by american jazz saxophonist booker ervin featuring performances recorded in 1960 for the bethlehem label. And the melody of african cookbook was based upon booker ervins sound, a sound like the north of africa. He first reached a wide audience in 1958, when he began playing with the great bassist charles mingus.
Simon spillett authored this article on booker ervin to accompany a 2017 release on the acrobat label booker ervin. With zoot sims tenor sax, tommy turrentine trumpet, tommy flanagan piano, george tucker bass and. This now outpfprint cd on bethlehemwea is an early offering from tenor saxophonist booker ervin. Simon spillett prepared this piece on booker ervin to accompany a 2017. Title the book cooks performer booker ervin index 00 21. Album information for the book cooks from booker ervin.
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