Booker Ervin The Space Book AOTW

[K1969]

strangely enough, judging by your picture, you look a lot like him -

True, but the handlebar moustache is fake I'm afraid

[JSngry]

Let's play Fantasy Still Owns The Catalog - exactly what would be included in a complete Booker Ervin on Prestige/New Jazz/etc box, including sideman appearances?

[kh1958]

That would be quite a few good records, recorded in a compressed time period.

Mal Waldron--The Quest (June 27, 1961)

Roy Haynes--Cracklin' (April 6, 1963)

Exultation (June 19, 1963)

Pony Poindexter--Gumbo (June 27, 1963)

The Freedom Book (December 3, 1963)

The Song Book (February 27, 1964)

The Blues Book (June 30, 1964)

Don Patterson--Hip Cake Walk (May 12 and July 10, 1964)

Sonny Stitt-Booker Ervin--Soul People (August 25, 1964)

Don Patterson--Patterson's People (same as Hip Cake Walk)

The Space Book (October 2, 1964)

Groovin' High (same as Freedom Book, Space Book and Blues Book)

Settin' the Pace (October 27, 1965)

The Trance (same as Settin' the Pace)

Heavy (September 9, 1966)

[JSngry]

A blogger's Dream!

[mikefok]

Pony Poindexter--Gumbo (June 27, 1963)

His playing with Pony Poindexter is always haunting!!

[mikeweil]

What's missing is the Larry Young trio session that was not released at the time, only on a fantasy twofer CD with the Gumbo session and a few unreleased Poindexter tracks.

Edited September 12, 2010 by mikeweil

[Chuck Nessa]

Pony Poindexter--Gumbo (June 27, 1963)

His playing with Pony Poindexter is always haunting!!

?

[mikeweil]

The British Jazz Lips label has done part of what Fantasy should or could have done: a double CD with all the tracks from the three "-book" Quartet sessions (The Song Book, The Space Book & The Freedom Book), with the only blues tune from the Blues Book as a bonus track. Sound is okay - but you know what to think ...

Disk: 1

1. A lunar tune

2. Cry me not

3. Grant's stand

4. A day to mourn

5. Al's in

6. Stella by starlight

7. The lamp is low

8. Come Sunday

9. All the things you are

10. Just friends

11. Yesterdays

Disk: 2

1. Our love is here to stay

2. Number two

3. I can't get started

4. Mojo

5. There is no greater love

6. The second number two

7. Bass-IX

8. No booze blooze

I have to admit I bought it, as I was always mad at Fantasy for not adding the tunes posthumously released to the CD versions of the OJC CDs ... now I finally have all of Booker's Prestige sessions on CD.

Edited September 12, 2010 by mikeweil

[mikeweil]

Pony Poindexter--Gumbo (June 27, 1963)

His playing with Pony Poindexter is always haunting!!

?

Even more ? as this is the only session where Book 'n' Pony played together ...

Edited September 12, 2010 by mikeweil

[Steve Reynolds]

now those above Prestige dates would be something I would buy in one great box set.

At one point in time, I had about 90% of them and today, I own none of them.

maybe the worst CD collateral damage of any artist outside of Miles and Monk I had from 2003 and 2004 when my CD collection took a large somewhat unexpected self-imposed beating/shrinkage......

I LOVE Blues Book and the live session with Dexter.

I also loved the ENJA recording with Horace Parlan - anyone remember the name of it? It had the one long groove based track.

I always found about 2 tunes on each record that i would like and they were always the fast/medium tempo with the long emotional solos and I never gave a wit that the solos were close to same as the last one!

[sidewinder]

I also loved the ENJA recording with Horace Parlan - anyone remember the name of it? It had the one long groove based track.

'Lament For Booker Ervin'.

[Steve Reynolds]

thanks, and I remember it being a great one!

[sgcim]

Has anyone heard the BE "Book' LP (i forgot which one) with Frank Strozier on it?

Does FS get a lot of blowing time on it?

[Enterprise Server]

Love Booker Ervin's playing. One of the first jazz records I listened to was "Structurally Sound"....awsome recording.

[JSngry]

Love Booker Ervin's playing. One of the first jazz records I listened to was "Structurally Sound"....awsome recording.

Just curious - did you first get that on LP or CD? And when?

I only ask because that one and The In-Between are two that I've only seen on LP once in my life each (fortunately, each at a time when I had cash...). The first was in the proverbial Old Dusty Mom & Pop back in 1978 or so, that latter in a department store cutout been a few years earlier.

Those things couldn't have been pressed more than once, and even then in small quantity.

Anyway, always interested in hearing stories about stuff like that, so if you'd like to share yours, it would be appreciated. Either way, great records, both of them.

[jeffcrom]

I have a very nice vinyl copy of The In Between that I know didn't cost more than ten bucks, from the record store down the street.

Edited May 29, 2013 by jeffcrom

[JSngry]

Was it new when you found it?

I've seen Booker 'n' Brass on occasion (and that should be heard on both LP & CD, as Belden de-reverbed the CD. Very nice, but very different!), but as I understand it, PJ actually had "commercial expectations" for that one. Structurally Sound on LP...glad i snagged it when I did.

Same for The In Between too, that cover deserves to be felt in LP form, even moreso than the Kenton/Barton album.

Music is music, but records is records, ya' know?

[jeffcrom]

Was it new when you found it?

No, my In Between was used when I found it about three years ago, but it was well cared for.

Music is music, but records is records, ya' know?

Yes! They're different, and I love them both.

[clifford_thornton]

Structurally Sound is one of those records I don't want to go online for, but the LP doesn't exactly turn up as much as some other Ervin titles. Would like to own a clean vinyl copy of it though.

[Chuck Nessa]

Has anyone heard the BE "Book' LP (i forgot which one) with Frank Strozier on it?

Does FS get a lot of blowing time on it?

That one is called Exultation! and Strozier solos on all 6 of the original tracks. The cd includes 2 shortened takes of tunes without his participation.

[clifford_thornton]

Killer session.

[Chuck Nessa]

Killer session.

I picked up that record from the "new release bin" at Younkers department store in Des Moines. I bought Andrew Hill's Black Fire, Dolphy's Conversations and the latest Down Beat at the same time. Went to a friends house in DM to listen to the treasures and discovered Dolphy's death in the magazine. Lots of pos and neg that day.

[clifford_thornton]

Yeah - wow.

[sgcim]

Has anyone heard the BE "Book' LP (i forgot which one) with Frank Strozier on it?

Does FS get a lot of blowing time on it?

That one is called Exultation! and Strozier solos on all 6 of the original tracks. The cd includes 2 shortened takes of tunes without his participation.

Thanks, Chuck.

[sidewinder]

The 'Structurally Sound' LP is one of those I picked up in the second hand bins in Mole. It was £7 I think !