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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, The Book Cooks, 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.
LP 1 / Side A
| 1 The Blue Book |
| 2 Git It |
| 3 Little Jane |
LP 1 / Side B
| 1 The Book Cooks |
| 2 Largo |
| 3 Poor Butterfly |
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