Ervin Booker - Tex Book Tenor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)

Ervin Booker - Tex Book Tenor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)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

"Do As I Do" and "Mr

the fuzzy electropop chops are just as impressive as the spacey burps and gurgles that made his debut so gripping

Welcome back Miss Phair

are related to Welsh royalty Dame Shirley Bassey and Manic Street Preachers' James Dean Bradfield

'Close Your Eyes and Think of England' is our European farewell

unglamorous cover portrait

" which resolves desperate wailing in a tumultuous

Weaving a sinister thread of unrelenting tech-steeped death metal

which finds him spitting mind-melting bars over beats from Oxnard

"Ash And Dust" is available as CD Digipak-and 180g LP (black or silver vinyl)

” Elicson reflects

long term friends set out with a sonic mission statement to not succumb to a single barrier