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Cracklin'

Roy Haynes

Recorded	Apr 10, 1963
Label	New Jazz
Catalog	NJLP 8286
Released	1963
Personnel	4 credited players
Discogs	master 345892

The record

Booker Ervin's tenor digs hard into the blues grooves this quartet lays down, Ridley and Mathews filling out the changes with no wasted motion. Cut for New Jazz in the spring of '63, it puts a sideman's-sideman up front for once.

Session personnel

Larry Ridley — bass
Roy Haynes — drums
Ronnie Mathews — 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 15 pressings on file.

1963	New Jazz · NJLP 8286 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · deep groove; RVG stamp
1964	New Jazz · NJLP 8286 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, No Deep Groove · RVG stamp
1964	New Jazz · 8286 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Non Deep Groove · RVG stamp
1963	Prestige · SMJ-7159 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1963	Prestige · SMJ-7159 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Test Pressing, White Label, Stereo
1990	New Jazz · WJC-8286 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1992	Prestige · VICJ-23785 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
1994	Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-818-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
2000	New Jazz — MONO
2007	New Jazz · VICJ-41832 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered
2008	New Jazz · UCCO-9453 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Paper Sleeve
2010	New Jazz · UCCO-9946 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered
2013	Down at Dawn · DAD 148 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
2020	Down at Dawn · DAD148 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono