Structurally Sound

Artist: Booker Ervin
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724352754526
EAN: 0724352754526
ASIN: B0000589UK

Release Date: 2001-02-13

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Tracks:

Berkshire Blues
Dancing In The Dark
Stolen Moments
Franess
Boo's Blues
You're My Everything
Deep Night
Take The A Train
Shiny Stockings
White Christmas
Franess (Alt Tk)
Deep Night (Alt Tk)

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Customer Reviews:

Awesome recording by a giant of the tenor.......2006-08-01

I cannot say enough good things about this record. I never had it on lp, so it was a great surprise when I got it on disc. It features some wonderful trumpet. It has some great sound and has a great feel to it. His style is much like Jackie McLean in that it sounds "heavy." It really swings and is upbeat.

It is out of print. Don't let it get away. The price is cheap. I listen to this record frequently--very accessable. It is not as abstract as some of his classic Prestige/OJC music which is also great.

Another "Sound" Album From Booker Ervin.......2001-03-24

After a string of great albums for the Prestige label in the first half of the 1960s, Booker Ervin spent the second half of the decade recording for Pacific, and later Blue Note. Of course, these two labels have been joined under the umbrella of Capitol since the advent of the compact disc, and thus "Structurally Sound" makes its CD debut as part of Blue Note's limited edition Connoisseur series. "Structurally Sound" finds Ervin playing with a new group of musicians -- Charles Tolliver on trumpet, John Hicks on piano, Red Mitchell on bass, and Lenny McBrowne on drums -- after cutting the majority of his previous Prestige dates with the classic rhythm trio of Jaki Byard, Richard Davis and Alan Dawson. The material on this disc is all over the map, from original compositions by Ervin, Tolliver, Randy Weston and Oliver Nelson to familiar standards like "Take The A Train" and "White Christmas." The album was recorded over three days in December 1966, and this CD issue features four previously unissued bonus tracks (two masters and two alternate takes). My reason for withholding a fifth star is that "Structurally Sound" is a notch below his best Prestige titles, like "The Blues Book" or "The Space Book," and this disc covers such a wide variety of material that it sometimes loses its coherence. However, Booker Ervin was an overlooked giant of the tenor saxophone, and hopefully this title will help to shed even more light on this remarkable jazz musician.

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