Description
- Tex Book Tenor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)
- Artist: Ervin Booker
- Format: LP
- Release Date: 3/1/2024
- LABEL: Blue Note Records
- UPC: 602445852246
- GENRE: Jazz
DESCRIPTION
Vinyl LP pressing. Following sideman appearances with pianist Horace Parlan in the early 1960s, Booker Ervin cut two stellar Blue Note records as a leader in 1968 including Tex Book Tenor which had to wait nearly 40 years until 2005 for it's first standalone release. With a sleek post-bop quintet featuring trumpeter Woody Shaw, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Jan Arnet, and drummer Billy Higgins, the Texas-born saxophonist slices through a set of compelling bandmember originals including Barron's sinuous tune "Gichi" and Shaw's lilting waltz "In a Capricornian Way," as well as Ervin's lovely ballad "Lynn's Tune" and the hard-swinging "Den Tex," named for his hometown of Denison.
Tracklist:
- 1
- Gichi
- 2
- Den Tex
- 3
- In a Capricornian Way
- 4
- Lynn's Tune
- 5
- 204
