BOOKER ERVIN - The Book Cooks - LP - 180g Vinyl
Label: BMG
SKU: 16273
Barcode: 4050538681697
Catalogue ID: 4050538681697
Format: Vinyl
LABEL: BMG
CAT NO: 4050538681697
BARCODE: 4050538681697
Tracklisting:
Side A
1. The Blue Book
2. Git It
3. Little Jane
Side B
1. The Book Cooks
2. Largo
3. Poor Butterfly
BOOKER ERVIN – The Book Cooks
LP – 180g Black Vinyl
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.
See below for tracklisting…
