Prestige

The Blues Book

Booker Ervin

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Recorded	1965
Label	Prestige
Catalog	PR 7340
Released	1965
Personnel	7 credited players
Discogs	master 373252

The record

Four long tracks, and the titles tell you the terrain: 'No Booze Blooze', 'True Blue', 'Eerie Dearie', 'One For Mort'. Booker Ervin's dry, hard tenor shares the front line with Carmell Jones's trumpet, but Richard Davis and Alan Dawson are the other story -- they push rather than keep time. Prestige PR 7340, 1965, produced by Don Schlitten.

Tracks

Eerie Dearie
One For Mort
No Booze Blooze
True Blue

Session personnel

Richard Davis (2) — Bass
Alan Dawson — Drums
Ira Gitler — Liner Notes [Oct. 1964]
Gildo Mahones — Piano
Don Schlitten — Producer, Design, Photography By
Booker Ervin — Tenor Saxophone
Carmell Jones — Trumpet

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 15 pressings on file.

1965	Prestige · PR 7340 — Vinyl LP Album Mono earliest on file
1965	Prestige · PR 7340 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1967	Transatlantic Records · PR 7340 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1972	Prestige · PR 7340 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1972	Prestige · PR 7340 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1988	Prestige · FANT 30 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1992	Prestige · VICJ-23783 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
1993	Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-780-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
1993	Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-780-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
1997	Prestige · VICJ-60043 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
2008	Prestige · UCCO-9385 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
2014	Prestige · UCCO-90255 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue
—	Prestige · PR 7340 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · laminated sleeve
—	Prestige · (P-7340) — CD, Album, Repress