falis
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Where my jazzbos at? How about some Booker Ervin? A soulful Texas tenor at home in the big city, he was another of the boppish saxists who'd been on the scene before Ornette Coleman and then took advantage of the expanded possibilities offered by jazz abstraction. He also died too young in 1970 (he was only 39), from kidney disease not hard living. In the last decade of his life he worked a lot with pianist Randy Weston, whom I keep promising to get to…and will eventually. The Freedom Book is the first part of a trilogy that included two other equally worthy discs, The Blues Book and The Space Book.
I have a Sam Rivers Bluenote retro release that I think he is on. Nice.