Sold Date: February 12, 2024
Start Date: November 30, 2023
Final Price: $75.00 (USD)
Seller Feedback: 528
Buyer Feedback: 56

                                                                  BOOKER ERVIN "THE FREEDOM BOOK"
"PART OF THE ULTIMATE AUDIOPHILE PRESTIGE STEREO REISSUES FROM ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS--25 OF THE MOST COLLECTIBLE, RAREST, MOST AUDIOPHILE-SOUNDING RUDY VAN GELDER RECORDINGS EVER MADE. ALL MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOG MASTER TAPES BY MASTERING MAESTRO KEVIN GRAY. 180-GRAM LP'S PRESSED AT STATE-OF-THE-ART PLANT QUALITY RECORD PRESSINGS AND PLATED BY GARY SALSTROM." THE FIRST 250 COPIES OF THIS LIMITED EDITION, SOLD-OUT EDITION WERE NUMBERED. THIS COPY IS NUMBER #66.
"BOOKER ERVIN'S SERIES OF SONG BOOKS FOR PRESTIGE RECORDS ANNOUNCED THE ARRIVAL OF A JAZZ ORATOR OF GIGANTIC STATURE. ERVIN'S TENOR SAXOPHONE SOUND WAS HAUNTED BY THE LONELINESS AND SPACIOUSNESS OF THE TEXAS PLAINS WHERE HE WAS RAISED. BUT HIS STYLE WENT BEYOND THE CLASSIC TEXAS TENOR TRADITION TO INCORPORATE THE INTRICACIES OF BEBOP AND SOME SUGGESTIONS OF FREE JAZZ."
THE SOUTHWEST MOAN WAS AN INTEGRAL PART OF HIS PLAYING. BUT HIS STYLE WENT BEYOND THE CLASSIC TEXAS TENOR TRADITION TO INCORPORATE THE INTRICACIES OF BEBOP AND SUGGESTIONS OF THE FREE JAZZ THAT WAS INITIATING ONE OF THE PERIODS OF SELF-RENEWAL THAT KEEPS JAZZ FRESH AND INTERESTING. 'THE FREEDOM BOOK', RECORDED AT THE END OF 1963, WAS ONE OF ERVIN'S MASTERPIECES. HE IS ABETTED BY THE POWER AND DRIVE OF JAKI BYARD, RICHARD DAVIS, AND ALAN DAWSON."