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The Song Book

Booker Ervin

Recorded	Feb 27, 1964
Label	Prestige
Catalog	PR 7318
Released	1964
Personnel	4 credited players
Discogs	master 373251

The record

Standards get the workout here, Flanagan's harmonic ease and the springy Davis-Dawson pulse opening space for Ervin's big Texas tenor tone. One of the strongest entries in his mid-'60s Prestige run, songbook or not.

Session personnel

Richard Davis — bass
Alan Dawson — drums
Tommy Flanagan — piano
Booker Ervin — tenor saxophone

Contemporary reception

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

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 26 pressings on file.

1964	Prestige · PR 7318 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
2017	Prestige · PRST 7318 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 200 gram Kevin Gray remaster
2017	Prestige · PRST 7318 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 200 gram Kevin Gray remaster
2023	Analogue Productions · APRJ 7318 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Repress, Stereo, 180g Analogue Productions · deep groove
1965	Prestige · PR 7318 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono · RVG stamp
1974	Prestige · PRST 7318 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Repress, Stereo · RVG stamp
2022	Prestige · PRST 7318 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Repress, Stereo, 200g · deep groove
1964	Prestige · PR 7318 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1965	Prestige · PR 7318 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo
1965	Prestige · SMJ-7270 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1972	Prestige · PR 7318 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1972	Prestige · PRT-7318-A { } 1 A1 G — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1976	Prestige · PR 7318 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1980	Prestige — STEREO