Booker Ervin
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Biography
Booker Ervin was a jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger from Texas who specialised in hard bebop. He has been compared to John Coltrane in his ability but never attained the same level of fame. He began his career in music as a trombonist before switching to the tenor sax while he was in the USAF in the early 1950s. Moving to New York City in 1958, Ervin began his long association with the legendary bass player and band leader, Charles Mingus. He signed with Prestige Records but later signed with Blue Note.
Ervin was widely travelled during his brief career before his death at the age of 39. He visited, recorded and gigged all over Europe and Scandinavia playing with such jazz luminaries as Dexter Gordon, Roy Haynes, Sonny Stitt and of course Mingus. Despite the brevity of his career he managed to create and release more than 15 LPs between 1960 and 1968.
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- Warm Canto featuring Eric Dolphy
- A Lunar Tune
- One For Mort
- True Blue
- No Booze Blues
- Number Two
- Grant's Stand
- Franess
- Stolen Moments
- Berkshire Blues
- You're My Everything
- Fire Waltz featuring Eric Dolphy
- Warp and Woof featuring Eric Dolphy
- Dee Da Do
- Mr. Wiggles
- You Don't Know What Love Is
- Down in the Dumps
- Soul People featuring Booker Ervin
- Well, Well
- Autumn Leaves by Coleman Hawkins
- I Can't Get Started/The Masquerade Is Over featuring Booker Ervin
- Dexter's Deck featuring Dexter Gordon
- Setting The Pace featuring Dexter Gordon
- Groovin' At The Jamboree
