Heavy!!!
1967 studio album by The Booker Ervin Sextet
Heavy!!! | ||||
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Studio album by The Booker Ervin Sextet | ||||
Released | 1967 | |||
Recorded | September 9, 1966 Impact Studios, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 46:17 CD reissue | |||
Label | Prestige PRLP 7499 | |||
Producer | Don Schlitten | |||
Booker Ervin chronology | ||||
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Heavy!!! is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Prestige label.[1]
Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "The set matches Ervin with a remarkable rhythm section... The music is quite moody, soulful, and explorative yet not forbidding".[2]
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [3] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
Track listing
- "Bächafillen" (Garnett Brown) - 8:15
- "You Don't Know What Love Is (Don Raye, Gene de Paul) - 8:43
- "Aluminum Baby" (Jaki Byard) - 5:00
- "Not Quite That" (Brown) - 7:54
- "Bei Mir Bist du Schoen" (Sholom Secunda, Jacob Jacobs, Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin) - 12:28
- "Ode to Charlie Parker" (Byard) - 3:57 Bonus track on CD reissue
Personnel
- Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone
- Jimmy Owens - trumpet (3,4,5,6), flugelhorn (1)
- Garnett Brown - trombone (1,3,4,5,6)
- Jaki Byard - piano
- Richard Davis - bass
- Alan Dawson - drums
References
- ^ Booker Ervin discography accessed February 1, 2011
- ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed February 1, 2011
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 72. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 450. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except when this was delayed
- The Book Cooks (1960)
- Cookin' (1960)
- That's It! (1961)
- Exultation! (1963)
- Gumbo! (with Pony Poindexter, 1963)
- The Freedom Book (1963)
- The Song Book (1964)
- The Blues Book (1964)
- The Space Book (1964)
- Groovin' High (1963–64)
- The Trance (1965)
- Setting the Pace (with Dexter Gordon, 1965)
- Heavy!!! (1966)
- Structurally Sound (1966)
- Booker 'n' Brass (1967)
- The In Between (1968)
- Tex Book Tenor (1968)
- Back from the Gig (with Horace Parlan, 2LP, 1963/68)
- Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959)
- Mingus Ah Um (1959)
- Mingus Dynasty (1959)
- Blues & Roots (1959)
- Mingus (1960)
- Mingus at Antibes (1960 [1976])
- Reincarnation of a Lovebird (1960)
- Oh Yeah (1961)
- Tonight at Noon (1961 [1964])
- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1963)
- Hot Line (Bill Barron, 1962)
- Out Front! (Jaki Byard, 1964)
- Urge (Ted Curson, 1965)
- Cracklin' (Roy Haynes, 1963)
- In the Land of the Giants (Eric Kloss, 1969)
- Havin' a Ball at the Village Gate (Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan, 1963)
- Up & Down (Horace Parlan, 1961)
- Happy Frame of Mind (Horace Parlan, 1963)
- The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson (Don Patterson)
- Hip Cake Walk (Don Patterson, 1964)
- Patterson's People (Don Patterson, 1964)
- Tune Up! (Don Patterson, 1964 [1971])
- Soul People (Sonny Stitt, 1964)
- The Quest (Mal Waldron, 1961)
- Highlife (Randy Weston, 1963)
- Randy/African Cookbook (Randy Weston, 1964)
- Monterey '66 (Randy Weston, 1966 [1994])