Name: The Book Cooks
Brand: Booker Ervin

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

4050538681697

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Colour

black

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

180 Gram Vinyl.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-12-10

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Warner Music Group

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Booker Ervin

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Reissue of the 1961 Classic debut album by the American Jazz tenor saxophonist. Booker Ervin was one of jazz’s biggest what-if’s; he died young, at 39, from kidney disease, right as he was hitting another wave of sonic experiments. He was a tenor who played the blues like they emanated from deep inside him, taking inspiration from field hollers as much as bebop. 

He got compared to Coltrane--who made a lot of similar playing decisions--but he had a different way of playing his blues. His debut LP, <i>The Book Cooks</i>, shows he arrived on the solo scene essentially fully formed; he’d change towards the end of the ‘60s, but this LP was a roadmap for him for the first part of his bandleader career.

The Book Cooks

Music GB