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Tex Book Tenor

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Released
  
2005

Length
  
37:34

Release date
  
2005

Label
  
Blue Note Records

Recorded
  
May 24, 1968

Artist
  
Booker Ervin

Producer
  
Francis Wolff

Genre
  
Jazz

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Similar
  
Booker Ervin albums, Jazz albums

Tex Book Tenor is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin featuring the last performances Ervin recorded as a leader in 1968 for the Blue Note label. The session was first released in 1976 as a double LP Back from the Gig combined with a 1964 session recorded under Horace Parlan's leadership (released in 1988 as Happy Frame of Mind) and finally released in 2005 on CD.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "This is a wonderful addition not only to the Blue Note catalog on CD, but to Ervin's own shelf as well, and should be picked up by anyone interested in him as a bandleader and composer".

Track listing

All compositions by Booker Ervin except as indicated
  1. "Gichi" (Kenny Barron) - 7:27
  2. "Den Tex" - 7:38
  3. "In A Capricornian Way" (Woody Shaw) - 5:52
  4. "Lynn's Tune" - 6:16
  5. "204" - 10:21
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on June 24, 1968.

    • Personnel

  • Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone
  • Kenny Barron - piano
  • Woody Shaw - trumpet
  • Jan Arnet - bass
  • Billy Higgins - drums

    • Songs

    1Gichi7:28
    2Den Tex7:39
    3In a Capricornian Way5:53

    References

    Tex Book Tenor Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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