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The Blues Book

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Released
  
1964

Length
  
41:27

Artist
  
Booker Ervin

Producer
  
Don Schlitten

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
June 30, 1964

The Blues Book (1964)
  
The Space Book (1964)

Release date
  
1964

Label
  
Prestige Records

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Studio
  
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Similar
  
Booker Ervin albums, Jazz albums

The Blues Book is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin featuring performances recorded in 1964 for the Prestige label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and stated: "The consistently passionate Ervin makes each of the fairly basic originals sound fresh and the performances are frequently exciting inside/outside music".

Track listing

All compositions by Booker Ervin.

  1. "Eerie Dearie" – 14:30
  2. "One for Mort" – 6:24
  3. "No Booze Blooze" – 15:26
  4. "True Blue" – 5:07

Personnel

  • Booker Ervin – tenor saxophone
  • Carmell Jones – trumpet
  • Gildo Mahones – piano
  • Richard Davis – bass
  • Alan Dawson – drums

    • Songs

    1Eerie Dearie14:31
    2One for Mort6:25
    3No Booze Blooze15:26

    References

    The Blues Book Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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