Boxset / Compilation · 2016
Tracklist
CD 1: TOTAL TIME: 71:21
01 DEE DA DOO
02 MR. WIGGLES
03 YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS
04 DOWN IN THE DUMPS
05 WELL, WELL
06 AUTUMN LEAVES
07 MOJO
08 URANUS
09 POINCIANA
10 SPEAK LOW
CD 2: TOTAL TIME: 76:33
01 BOOKER’S BLUES
02 BOO
03 THE BOOK’S BEAT
04 UP AND DOWN
05 FUGEE
06 THE OTHER PART OF TOWN
07 LONELY ONE
08 LIGHT BLUE
09 FUGEE [alternate take]
10 HOME IS AFRICA
CD 3: TOTAL TIME: 72:24
01 A TUNE FOR RICHARD
02 BACK FROM THE GIG
03 DEXI
04 KUCHEZA BLUES
05 HAPPY FRAME OF MIND
06 MOOCHE MOOCHE
07 BLACK AND BLUE
08 TUNE IN
09 JUST IN TIME [short take]
10 JUST IN TIME [long take]
11 NO LAND’S MAN [short take]
Line-up/Musicians
BOOKER ERVIN, tenor sax, and HORACE PARLAN, piano, on all tracks, plus:
CD 1 [1-5]: COOKIN':
RICHARD WILLIAMS, trumpet
GEORGE TUCKER, bass
DANNIE RICHMOND, drums
New Jersey, November 26, 1960
CD 1 [7-10] & CD 2 [1-2]: THAT'S IT (4 1/2 Stars All Music Guide):
GEORGE TUCKER, bass
AL HAREWOOD, drums
New York, January 6, 1961
CD 2 [3-9]: UP AND DOWN (4 1/2 Stars All Music Guide):
GRANT GREEN, guitar;
GEORGE TUCKER, bass
AL HAREWOOD, drums.
New Jersey, June 18, 1961
CD 2 [10] & CD 3 [1-5]: HAPPY FRAME OF MIND (4 1/2 Stars All Music Guide):
JOHNNY COLES, trumpet
GRANT GREEN, guitar
BUTCH WARREN, bass
BILLY HIGGINS, drums
New Jersey, February 15, 1963
CD 3 [6-13]: EXULTATION (4 Stars All Music Guide):
FRANK STROZIER, alto sax
BUTCH WARREN, bass
WALTER PERKINS, drums.
New Jersey, June 19, 1963
About this release
Phono Records (EU)
This release presents, for the first time ever on a single set, all collaborative small-group albums led by Booker Ervin and Horace Parlan. Other than these albums, they only recorded together as members of the celebrated Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop. The five LPs included here in their entireties (along with all existing material from the sessions) are "Cookin’" (Savoy Records MG 12154), "That’s It" (Candid CJM-8014), "Up and Down" (Blue Note BST-84082),"Happy Frame of Mind" (Blue Note BST-84134), and "Exultation" (Prestige PRLP-7293).
Thanks to snobb for the addition