Graded on a Curve: Booker Ervin, The Freedom Book
- 8:53 AM — May 3 —
- Source: The Vinyl District
While he's remembered foremost as a key contributor to the bands of jazz titan Charles Mingus, tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin also recorded a slew of outstanding albums as a leader, none of them better than his 1963 outing The Freedom Book. If the accumulated weight of post-bop's golden era can sometimes feel like an unfathomable musical avalanche, this casually faultless quartet outing is unquestionably one for the hearing. Read More
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Don Ellis
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A talented trumpeter with a vivid musical imagination and the willingness to try new things, Don Ellis led some of the most... Read the full Don Ellis bio.
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