Ervin Booker (4 results)

Audio CD. Condition: Sehr gut. Remastered. 6 tracks. CD sehr gut erhalten! LÄUFT! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Audio CD. Condition: Used - Very Good.

Audio CD. Condition: Sehr gut. Hülle mit kleinen Gebrauchspuren, CD wie neu OM203F9 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 505.

Really quite superb and typographically "groovy" poster offering a roster of decidedly superior jazz entertainment throughout August 1967. The East Village In was situated at 101 Avenue A, a slice of old New York's East Village that continued as "a lynchpin of the downtown arts, culture, and music scene" when in 1979 it morphed into the fabulous Pyramid Club (villagepreservation website). The unmistakable Booker Ervin (whose tone on tenor is described by British jazz historian Brian Priestley as "not merely hot but scalding") was leading a quintet, the composition of which may have matched his Newport format of that year: Chick Corea (piano), Reggie Johnson (bass) and Lenny McBrowne (drums). Fellow Texan Kenny Dorham was one of the first bebop trumpeters and "had something of the fleetness of Dizzy Gillespie and the sonority of Miles Davis" (Ian Carr). Tenorist Jimmy Heath, whose "tough post-bop style [was] a match for many better-known players" (Priestley), led a group at this time that often included trumpeter Art Farmer and vibes maestro Milt Jackson. Blue Mitchell (trumpet) and Junior Cook (tenor) inherited Horace Silver's group when the pianist left in 1964 and made some fine recordings for Blue Note. Ian Carr and Brian Priestley in Jazz: The Rough Guide, 1995. Poster (558 x 354 mm), printed in black on white-faced heavy card stock, yellow spot colour. Very slight creasing to top left corner otherwise in exceptional condition, bright and sharp.…