BOOKER ERVIN / Tex Book Tenor / 1976 BlueNote / quintet torrent

Booker Telleferro Ervin II (1930-1970) is best known for his work with Charles

Mingus.


To my ears, his fat sound is a mixture of Dexter Gordon and Wayne Shorter qualities

however this kind of arbitrary analysis is insulting to all 3 of these tenor

geniuses......not that they wouldn't be flattered by association with such good

company.


I have yet to hear an album with Booker Ervin that wasn't excellent....(IMO as

always)


The recording date is 1968....Booker's last albums were Blue Notes and this was

the last (the date 1976 came out of the database and since Booker was no longer

with us then it seems irrelevant)


I love the way the last note in a phrase is slurred down slightly with just a

touch of vibrato at the very end.