Booker Ervin: The Book Cooks - VINYL LP

Booker Ervin: The Book Cooks - VINYL LP

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Title:

The Book Cooks

Artist:

Booker Ervin

Label:

BMG Rights Managemen

Product Type:

VINYL LP

UPC:

4050538681697

Genre:

Jazz

Release Date:

2021-12-10

Number of Discs:

1

Vinyl reissue of the classic 1961 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. The Book Cooks shows that Ervin 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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