Booker Ervin - The Book Cooks [180-Gram Black Vinyl]

Format: LP
ICPN: 4050538681697
Release Date: 22 Oct 2021
Genre: Jazz

Tracklist:
Side A
1. The Blue Book
2. Git It
3. Little Jane

Side B
1. The Book Cooks
2. Largo
3. Poor Butterfly

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.