The Book Cooks | Booker Ervin

Product Code: 4050538681697

EAN: 4050538681697
Catalogue Code: 4050538681697
Title: The Book Cooks
Principle Contributor: Booker Ervin
Contributors: Booker Ervin
Genre: Jazz, Bop
Produced by Label/Studio: BMG Rights Management, 1961
Published by: ADA, 10 Dec 2021
Format: Vinyl / 12" Album,
Media: 1 disc(s)

£20.00 £10.00

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Disc 1
1. The Blue Book - Booker Ervin (8.33)
2. Git It - Booker Ervin (6.54)
3. Little Jane - Booker Ervin (6.26)
4. The Book Cooks - Booker Ervin (10.44)
5. Largo - Booker Ervin (6.31)
6. Poor Butterfly - Booker Ervin (3.46)

Cover Notes: Reissue of the 1961 classic debut album by the American jazz tenor saxophonist. Booker Ervin was one of jazz's biggest what-if's; he died young, at 39, from kidney disease, right as he was hitting another wave of sonic experiments. He was a tenor who played the blues like they emanated from deep inside him, taking inspiration from field hollers as much as bebop. He got compared to Coltrane - who made a lot of similar playing decisions - but he had a different way of playing his blues. His debut LP, 'The Book Cooks' shows he arrived on the solo scene essentially fully formed; he'd change towards the end of the '60s, but this LP was a roadmap for him for the first part of his bandleader career.

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