The space book is an album by american jazz saxophonist booker ervin featuring performances recorded in 1964 for the prestige label, with his quartet including jaki byard on piano, richard davis on bass, and alan dawson on drums. This album exclusively features jazz standards, and while ervin plays beautifully on the ballads come sunday and yesterdays, he also tackles the lamp is low, all the things you are, just friends, and our love is here to stay with his trademark. Tenor saxophonist booker ervins quartet with pianist jaki byard. The space book, an album by booker ervin on spotify. Number two artists booker ervin ts jaki byard p richard davis b alan dawson d recorded rudy van gelder studio. The space book by booker ervin on amazon music unlimited. Jul 26, 2018 provided to youtube by universal music group i cant get started booker ervin the space book. How about eric kloss in the land of the giants with booker ervin, jaki byard, richard davis and alan dawson. At the onset of a remarkable eight bar segment, he matches ervins rapidfire lines by integrating single hits to the bass drum into pieces of eighthnote. Feb 14, 2017 for me, the space book is probably the best. Find album release information for space book booker ervin on allmusic. Ervin, fresh from a sevenyear stint with mingus, continued to grow musically more adventurous in the mid sixties. Leave a comment post navigation booker ervin to accompany a 2017 release on the acrobat label booker ervin. The song book, the blues book and the space book were all subsequently recorded in 1964 for prestige, but this seminal 1963 recording is a masterpiece of unconventional, advanced hard bop.
With an approach somewhere between john coltrane and sonny rollins, though far more sinewy than both those players, booker ervin solos throughout this lp with amazing dexterity and panache. Booker ervin, jaki byard, richard davis, alan dawson space book amazon. Booker ervin, for me, was on the same level as john coltrane. Booker ervin, jaki byard, richard davis, alan dawson space book. Throughout ervins solo on the standard just friends booker ervin, the song book, prestige, dawson finds ingenious ways to buttress the tenor saxophonists mercurial changes in direction. Booker ervin the freedom book prestige prst 7295 lp1964. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Listen to your favorite songs from the space book by booker ervin now. Ervin originally played trombone but taught himself the tenor when he was in the air force in the early 1950s. Booker ervin the space book 1964 londonjazzcollector. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Original jazz classics ojccd9192 booker ervin groovin high. He is best known for his association with bassist charles mingus.
Mojo artists booker ervin ts jaki byard p richard davis b alan dawson d recorded rudy van gelder studio, englewood cliffs, nj, october 2, 1964 music. Booker ervin, jaki byard, richard davis, alan dawson space. Kloss on alto and ervin on tenor really fiery stuff. In some ways tenor saxophonist booker ervin was the archetypal jazz player for the postbop 1960s, combining the tradition of texas sax with just the hint of edgy modernism, a sort of the deltameetsmorocco sound so accessible that it is easy to miss the chances ervin took with his music. Booker ervin of course did end up with a blue note contract in the late 1960s, but his best work was behind him at that point. The space book is an album by american jazz saxophonist booker ervin featuring performances recorded in 1964 for the prestige label, with his quartet.
The two ervin originals number two and mojo are freefalling bottle rockets, fizzing and dangerous. Booker ervin the space book aotw album of the week. Leave a comment post navigation jazz order by phone 18003364627. Jan 12, 2011 the song book was booker ervin s answer to the ballads album trend of the early 60s. Original jazz classics ojccd8962 booker ervin the space book prestige p24091 booker ervin the freedom and space sessions prestige pr 7417. Booker ervin the space book 1964 jazz of the spheres. Booker ervin usa, 1965 the space book full youtube. Freedom book bonus track by booker ervin 888072301603. Its available on a 2cd set on ojcprestige backed up with a kloss set featuring byard, pat martino and jack dejohnette which is excellent as well. Booker ervin, jaki byard, richard davis, alan dawson.
May 30, 2012 this entry was posted in booker ervin, transatlantic and tagged alan dawson, booker ervin, jaki byard, richard davis, transatlantic by londonjazzcollector. Listen to the freedom bookby booker ervin on slacker radio, where you can also create personalized internet radio stations based on your favorite albums, artists and songs. Ill write more later and try to post the album cover. Ervin, who is on several notable charles mingus records, made dates of his own for bethlehem, savoy, and candid during 19601961, along with later sets for pacific jazz and blue note. A very distinctive tenor with a hard, passionate tone and an emotional style that was still tied to chordal improvisation, booker ervin was a true original.
Booker ervin tenor saxophone, jaki byard piano, richard davis bass, alan dawson drums, don schlitten producer, design, rudy van gelder recording engineer, ewing galloway photography, ira gitler liner notes. A hard biting tenor voice reminiscent of coltrane, though not quite as ferocious in his linear attack. His tenor playing was characterised by a strong, tough sound and bluesgospel phrasing. Provided to youtube by universal music group i cant get started booker ervin the space book. A native of dension, texas, he was noted as a very distinctive tenor with a hard, passionate tone and an emotional style that was still tied to chordal. He was a completely original saxophonist he was a master african cookbook, which i composed back in the early 60s, was partly named after booker because we musicians used to call him book, and we would say, cook, book. That best work is the halfdozen or so albums he made for prestige in the mid60s, and particularly the freedom book and the space book. May 09, 2007 the first of four thematically linked albums, tenor saxophonist booker ervin s the freedom book is an overlooked classic. Booker telleferro ervin, ii 19301970 find a grave memorial. Simon spillett prepared this piece on booker ervin to accompany a 2017 release on the acrobat label booker ervin. Tex book tenor blue note back from the gig 196468 1976 compiling then unreleased sessions that would later be issued as horace parlans.
Booker ervin space book 1964 prestige londonjazzcollector. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. The first of four thematically linked albums, tenor saxophonist booker ervin s the freedom book is an overlooked classic. His nine prestige sessions of 19631966 including the freedom book, the song book, the blues book, and the space book are among the high points of his career. The space book by booker ervin released in 1965 via prestige.