The Blues Book

The Blues Book Artist: Booker Ervin
Label: Ojc
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 025218678025
EAN: 0025218678025
ASIN: B000000YZ9


Release Date: 1993-03-21

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Tracks:

  1. Eerie Dearie
  2. One For Mort
  3. No Booze Blooze
  4. True Blue

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars You Can Judge This "Book" By Its Cover!.......2000-08-31

Well I bought this CD from Amazon, and with the purchase of "The Blues Book" I now have six Booker Ervin albums. Let me tell you, this one can hold its own with the best of them. Stylistically (and chronologically), it falls somewhere between "The Freedom Book" and "The Space Book," but is definitely more rooted in the blues as the title indicates. However, they are a warped, avant-blues with pianist Gildo Mahones (the first recording I have of him) adding Monk-like flourishes to put the eerie in "Eerie Dearie," the disc's first track. The album's other lengthy blues number is "No Booze Blooze," where under-recorded and underappreciated trumpeter Carmell Jones shines. (Check Carmell out on Horace Silver's classic "Song For My Father.") Unlike on "The Space Book" where the longer tracks (1 & 3) are the most exploratory, here it is the shorter tracks 2 & 4, "One for Mort" and "True Blue." As with other Prestige recordings, Ervin is ably backed by Richard Davis on bass and Alan Dawson on drums, and without these two geniuses the album would not be a classic. All of Ervin's "Books" can be judged by the cover and the contents alike.

5 out of 5 stars Breaking The Blues Away..........2000-06-19

We all know that what makes jazz so distinctive and popular among other genres of non-pop music is the presence of blues in it(major difference from ragtime),This album explores the alchemy of blues on to jazz,yet paving the way for bebop drenched lines fused with the "Bluesssss",Ervin playing is very master"full",somewhat his fame owing to his dates to mingus,this cut here explores his mind in a very distinctive way.There are 4 basic blues standards which ervin makes so original and jazzy, yet drenching it with his soul! Highly recommended.

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