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Booker Telleferro Ervin II Denison Texas October 31 1930 – New York City July 31 1970 Was An American Tenor Saxophone Player. Ervin Is Best Known For His Association With Bassist Charles Mingus. He Worked With Mingus From 1956 To 1963 Appearing On "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" On The Album Mingus Ah Um And "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" On Blues And Roots As Well As Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. After Teaching Himself Tenor Saxophone While In The United States Air Force Booker Ervin Moved To The Boston Area And Studied At Berklee College Of Music. His Tenor Playing Was Characterised By A Strong Tough Sound And Blues/gospel Phrasing Perhaps Influenced By John Coltrane. He Moved To New York To Join Horace Parlan's Quartet With Whom He Recorded Up & Down And Happy Frame Of Mind Both For Blue Note Records . During The 1960s Ervin Also Led His Own Quartet Recording For Prestige Records With Ex-Mingus Associate Pianist Jaki Byard Along With Bassist Richard Davis And Alan Dawson On Drums. Ervin Later Recorded For Blue Note Records And Played With Pianist Randy Weston With Whom He Recorded Between 1963 And 1966.
He Died Of Kidney Disease In New York City In 1970 Aged 39. Discography As Leader
1960 The Book Cooks Bethlehem 1960 Cookin' Savoy 1961 That's It! Candid 1963 Exultation! Prestige 1963 The Freedom Book Prestige 1963 The Song Book Prestige 1963 Gumbo Prestige 1964 The Blues Book Prestige 1964 The Space Book Prestige 1965 Groovin' High Prestige 1966 The Trance Prestige 1966 Heavy!!! Prestige 1966 Structurally Sound Pacific Jazz 1967 Booker 'n' Brass Pacific Jazz 1968 The In Between Blue Note 1968 Tex Book Tenor Blue Note Back From The Gig 1964-68 1976 - Compiling Then Unreleased Sessions That Would Later Be Issued As Horace Parlan's Happy Frame Of Mind In 1988 And Ervin's Tex Book Tenor In 2005. As Sideman
With Bill Barron
Hot Line Denon 1962 With Jaki Byard
Out Front! Prestige 1964 With Teddy Charles
Jazz In The Garden At The Museum Of Modern Art Warwick 1960 With Roy Haynes
Cracklin′ New Jazz 1963 With Andrew Hill
Grass Roots Blue Note 1968 With Lambert Hendricks & Bavan
Havin' A Ball At The Village Gate RCA 1963 With Charles Mingus
Jazz Portraits Mingus In Wonderland United Artists 1959 Mingus Ah Um Columbia 1959 Mingus Dynasty Columbia 1959 Blues & Roots Atlantic 1959 Mingus At Antibes Atlantic 1960 1976 Reincarnation Of A Lovebird Candid 1960 Oh Yeah Atlantic 1961 Tonight At Noon Atlantic 1957-61 1965 Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Impulse! 1963 With Horace Parlan
Up & Down Blue Note 1961 Happy Frame Of Mind Blue Note 1963 1988 With Don Patterson
Hip Cake Walk Prestige 1964 With Mal Waldron
The Quest New Jazz 1961 With Randy Weston
Highlife Colpix 1963 Randy Bakton 1964 - Also Released As African Cookbook Atlantic In 1972
Monterey '66 Verve 1966 read less