A série Song Books de Booker Ervin para a Prestige Records anunciou a chegada de um orador de jazz com enorme estatura. O som do seu saxofone tenor evocava a solidão e vazio das planícies do Texas onde cresceu. Mas o seu estilo foi bem para lá da tradição tenor do Texas ao incorporar as complexidades do bebop e algumas sugestões de free jazz.

• Edição Limitada
• Analogue Productions Prestige Stereo Series
• Vinil Audiófilo 180 Gramas
• Masterizado por Kevin Gray na Cohearent Audio
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Analógicas Originais
• Acetatos preparados para prensagem por Gary Salstrom
• Prensagem na Quality Record Pressings QRP USA
• Capa Deluxe "tip-on" com acabamento de alto brilho

Part of the ultimate audiophile Prestige stereo reissues from Analogue Productions — 25 of the most collectible, rarest, most audiophile-sounding Rudy Van Gelder recordings ever made. All mastered from the original analog master tapes by mastering maestro Kevin Gray. 180-gram LPs pressed at state-of -the-art plant Quality Record Pressings and plated by Gary Salstrom. Deep groove label pressings, tip-on jackets on thick cardboard stock.

Booker Ervin's recordings with Charles Mingus and Randy Weston brought him good reviews and a bit of notoriety. But it was his series of Song Books for Prestige Records that broadcast the stentorian announcement that a jazz orator of gigantic stature had arrived. Ervin's tenor saxophone sound was haunted by the loneliness and spaciousness of the Texas plains where he was raised. The Southwest moan was an integral part of his playing. But his style went beyond the classic Texas tenor tradition to incorporate the intricacies of bebop and suggestions of the free jazz that was initiating one of the periods of self-renewal that keeps jazz fresh and interesting. The Freedom Book, recorded at the end of 1963, was one of Ervin's masterpieces. He is abetted by the power and drive of Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, and Alan Dawson.

Músicos:

Booker Ervin, sax tenor
Jaki Byard, piano
Richard Davis, contrabaixo
Alan Dawson, bateria

Lista de Faixas:

Lado A
1. A Lunar Tune
2. Cry Me Not
3. Grant's Stand

Lado B
4. A Day To Mourn
5. Al's In

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