That's It!
1961 studio album by Booker Ervin
That's It! | ||||
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Studio album by Booker Ervin | ||||
Released | 1961 | |||
Recorded | January 6, 1961 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 43:16 | |||
Label | Candid | |||
Booker Ervin chronology | ||||
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That's It! is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin featuring performances recorded in 1961 for the Candid label.[1]
Reception
The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer, Ira Gitler, commented that the album was Ervin's best work up to that time.[2] The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and stated: "Booker Ervin, who always had a very unique sound on the tenor, is heard in prime form on his quartet set".[3]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
DownBeat | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
Track listing
- All compositions by Booker Ervin except as indicated
- "Mojo" - 7:57
- "Uranus" - 4:32
- "Poinciana" (Buddy Bernier, Nat Simon) - 8:04
- "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) - 7:12
- "Booker's Blues" - 10:59
- "Boo" - 4:32
- Recorded at Nola Penthouse Studios in New York City on January 6, 1961.
Personnel
- Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone
- Horace Parlan - piano
- George Tucker - bass
- Al Harewood - drums
References
- ^ Booker Ervin discography, accessed February 4, 2011.
- ^ a b Gitler, Ira (October 12, 1961). "Booker Ervin: That's It!". DownBeat. Vol. 28, no. 21. p. 29.
- ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic review, accessed February 4, 2011.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 449. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except when this was delayed
- The Book Cooks (1960)
- Cookin' (1960)
- That's It! (1961)
- Exultation! (1963)
- Gumbo! (with Pony Poindexter, 1963)
- The Freedom Book (1963)
- The Song Book (1964)
- The Blues Book (1964)
- The Space Book (1964)
- Groovin' High (1963–64)
- The Trance (1965)
- Setting the Pace (with Dexter Gordon, 1965)
- Heavy!!! (1966)
- Structurally Sound (1966)
- Booker 'n' Brass (1967)
- The In Between (1968)
- Tex Book Tenor (1968)
- Back from the Gig (with Horace Parlan, 2LP, 1963/68)
- Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959)
- Mingus Ah Um (1959)
- Mingus Dynasty (1959)
- Blues & Roots (1959)
- Mingus (1960)
- Mingus at Antibes (1960 [1976])
- Reincarnation of a Lovebird (1960)
- Oh Yeah (1961)
- Tonight at Noon (1961 [1964])
- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1963)
- Hot Line (Bill Barron, 1962)
- Out Front! (Jaki Byard, 1964)
- Urge (Ted Curson, 1965)
- Cracklin' (Roy Haynes, 1963)
- In the Land of the Giants (Eric Kloss, 1969)
- Havin' a Ball at the Village Gate (Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan, 1963)
- Up & Down (Horace Parlan, 1961)
- Happy Frame of Mind (Horace Parlan, 1963)
- The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson (Don Patterson)
- Hip Cake Walk (Don Patterson, 1964)
- Patterson's People (Don Patterson, 1964)
- Tune Up! (Don Patterson, 1964 [1971])
- Soul People (Sonny Stitt, 1964)
- The Quest (Mal Waldron, 1961)
- Highlife (Randy Weston, 1963)
- Randy/African Cookbook (Randy Weston, 1964)
- Monterey '66 (Randy Weston, 1966 [1994])