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Booker Ervin: The Song Book

In July 1964, “Prestige” label released “The Song Book”, the seventh Booker Ervin album. It was recorded in February 1964, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Don Schlitten.

Personnel:

  • Booker Ervin – tenor saxophone
  • Tommy Flanagan – piano
  • Richard Davis – bass
  • Alan Dawson – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – recording
  • Don Schlitten – design, photography
  • Dan Morgenstern – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. The Lamp Is Low – Peter de Rose, Mitchell Parish, Maurice Ravel, Bert Shefter
  2. Come Sunday – Duke Ellington
  3. All the Things You Are – Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern
  4. Just Friends – John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis
  5. Yesterdays – Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern
  6. Love Is Here to Stay – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin

The Three Sounds: Vibrations

In January 1967, “Blue Note” label released “Vibrations”, the 25th Three Sounds (The) album. It was recorded in October 1966, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Personnel:

  • Gene Harris – piano, organ
  • Andrew Simpkins – bass
  • Kalil Madi – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – recording
  • Reid Miles – design, photography
  • Leonard Feather – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. The Frown – Gene Harris
  2. Fever – Eddie Cooley, Otis Blackwell
  3. Let’s Go Get Stoned – Joey Armstead, Nicholas Ashford, Valerie Simpson
  4. Something You Got – Chris Kenner
  5. Yeh Yeh – Rogers Grant, Pat Patrick
  6. It Was a Very Good Year – Ervin Drake
  7. The Lamp Is Low – Peter de Rose, Bert Shefter
  8. Yours Is My Heart Alone – Ludwig Herzer, Franz Lehár, Fritz Löhner-Beda
  9. Django – John Lewis
  10. Charade – Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer