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Tex Book Tenor

Tex Book Tenor cover
RecordedMay 24, 1968
LabelBlue Note
Released1968
Personnel5 credited players
Discogsmaster 463659

The record

Blue Note caught Ervin here with Woody Shaw's brass alongside him and Kenny Barron working the changes underneath. Billy Higgins drives it loose and easy, the tenor man pushing hard right through his final years on the label.

Session personnel

  • Jan Arnet — bass
  • Billy Higgins — drums
  • Kenny Barron — piano
  • Booker Ervin — tenor saxophone
  • Woody Shaw — trumpet

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

2005Blue Note · 0946 3 11439 2 2 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp
2005Blue Note · 0946 3 11440 2 8 — CD, Album, Reissue, Limited Edition, Copy Protected · RVG stamp
2005Blue Note · 0946 3 11439 2 2 — CD, Album, Club Edition, Limited Edition, Reissue · RVG stamp
Blue Note · 0946 3 11439 2 2 — CDr, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Repress, Stereo · RVG stamp
2024Blue Note — STEREO
2024Blue Note · UCCQ-9743 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, UHQCD
Blue Note — File, MP3, Album, Reissue, Remastered, VBR

Follow the players

Billy Higgins also plays on

Kenny Barron also plays on

Booker Ervin also plays on