If you like Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins or Coltrane, you'll like Booker Ervin. Excellent tenorman with a passionate, driving style. The new cd out (actually a reissue on the Blue Note Conn. Series), 'Tex Book Tenor', wouldn't be a bad start to get to know The Book better.
Other recs include;
The Freedom Sessions
The Book Cooks
The Trance
Structurally Sound
(but I haven't heard a bad BE album yet)
He also was a sideman for Mingus btw. Check out some of his late-50s, early-60s work there.
Other recs include;
The Freedom Sessions
The Book Cooks
The Trance
Structurally Sound
(but I haven't heard a bad BE album yet)
He also was a sideman for Mingus btw. Check out some of his late-50s, early-60s work there.