Artist:Booker Ervin
Song:204
Album:Tex Book Tenor
Booker Ervin was a great tenor sax player forgotten mostly because of his premature death. He made his name in Charles Mingus' band and made several solo recordings before moving to Europe in 1966. 204 is a great hard bop track that also features Woody Shaw on sax, Kenny Barron on piano & Billy Higgins on drums. The album was recorded for Pacific Jazz in 1968, barely released in 1976 and issued for the first time on CD by Blue Note in 2005. Definitely worth getting for fans of the Texas Tenor. Booker Ervin died of kidney failure in 1970 at age 39.
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