About This Item
Vinyl LP pressing. Following sideman appearances with pianist Horace Parlan in the early 1960s, Booker Ervin cut two stellar Blue Note records as a leader in 1968 including Tex Book Tenor which had to wait nearly 40 years until 2005 for it's first standalone . With a sleek post-bop quintet featuring trumpeter Woody Shaw, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Jan Arnet, and drummer Billy Higgins, the Texas-born saxophonist slices through a set of compelling bandmember originals including Barron's sinuous tune InchGichiInch and Shaw's lilting waltz InchIn a Capricornian Way,Inch as well as Ervin's lovely ballad InchLynn's TuneInch and the hard-swinging InchDen Tex,Inch named for his hometown of Denison. Album Tracks 1. Gichi 2. Den Tex 3. In a Capricornian Way 4. Lynn's Tune 5. 204
