The Song Book is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin featuring performances recorded in 1964 for the Prestige label.Booker Ervin discography accessed February 3, 2011
Reception The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated " Ervin and his quartet come up with fresh interpretations of the warhorses. Booker Ervin never sounded like anyone else".Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed February 3, 2011
Track listing "The Lamp Is Low" (Peter de Rose, Mitchell Parish, Maurice Ravel, Bert Shefter) - 7:16 "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) - 5:39 "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 5:21 "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) - 5:56 "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 7:44 "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 6:27
Personnel Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone Tommy Flanagan - piano Richard Davis - bass Alan Dawson - drums
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