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- Genre: Jazz
- Description: 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
- Artist: Ervin Booker
- Title: Tex Book Tenor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)
- Format: VINYL
- Label: Blue Note Records
- Release Date: 03/01/2024
- Genre: Jazz
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- Product Name: Ervin Booker - Tex Book Tenor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) - VINYL LP
- UPC: 602445852246
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
