Prestige · in the Kissa Kissa racks

Soul People

Recorded	Aug 25, 1964
Label	Prestige
Catalog	PR 7372
Released	1964
Personnel	4 credited players
Discogs	master 346649

The record

Booker Ervin's grit meets Stitt's cleaner bebop lines in a saxophone face-off riding hard atop Don Patterson's organ. Cut in '64 for Prestige, it plays like a cutting contest dressed as a session.

Session personnel

Billy James — drums
Don Patterson — organ
Booker Ervin — tenor saxophone
Sonny Stitt — tenor saxophone, alto saxophone

Contemporary reception

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

Pressings

1965	Prestige · PR 7372 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · RVG stamp
1965	Prestige · PR 7372 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · RVG stamp
1965	Prestige · PR 7372 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · RVG stamp
2007	Prestige · VICJ-41895 — CD, Album, Remastered, Stereo · RVG stamp
1965	Prestige — STEREO
1968	Transatlantic Records · PR 7372 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue
1973	Prestige · PR 7372 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1973	Prestige · PR 7372 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1992	Prestige · VICJ-23725 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
1993	Prestige · PRCD-24127-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
2006	Prestige · 00025218512725 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
—	Prestige · PRCD-24127-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered