Heavy!!! is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Prestige label.Booker Ervin discography accessed February 1, 2011
Reception The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "The set matches Ervin with a remarkable rhythm section... The music is quite moody, soulful, and explorative yet not forbidding".Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed February 1, 2011
Track listing "Bächafillen" (Garnett Brown) - 8:15 "You Don't Know What Love Is (Don Raye, Gene de Paul) - 8:43 "Aluminum Baby" (Jaki Byard) - 5:00 "Not Quite That" (Brown) - 7:54 "Bei Mir Bist du Schoen" (Sholom Secunda, Jacob Jacobs, Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin) - 12:28 "Ode to Charlie Parker" (Byard) - 3:57 Bonus track on CD reissue
Personnel Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone Jimmy Owens - trumpet (3,4,5,6), flugelhorn (1) Garnett Brown - trombone (1,3,4,5,6) Jaki Byard - piano Richard Davis - bass Alan Dawson - drums
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