Ervin, Booker: Tex Book Tenor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (Vinyl LP)

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Vinyl LP pressing. Following sideman appearances with pianist Horace Parlan in the early 1960s, Booker Ervin cut two stellar Blue Note records as a leader in 1968 including Tex Book Tenor which had to wait nearly 40 years until 2005 for it's first standalone release. With a sleek post-bop quintet featuring trumpeter Woody Shaw, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Jan Arnet, and drummer Billy Higgins, the Texas-born saxophonist slices through a set of compelling bandmember originals including Barron's sinuous tune Gichi and Shaw's lilting waltz In a Capricornian Way, as well as Ervin's lovely ballad Lynn's Tune and the hard-swinging Den Tex, named for his hometown of Denison. Gichi, Den Tex, In a Capricornian Way, Lynn's Tune, 204