Heavy!!!

Heavy!!!
Studio album by
The Booker Ervin Sextet
Released1967
RecordedSeptember 9, 1966
Impact Studios, New York City
GenreJazz
Length46:17 CD reissue
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7499
ProducerDon Schlitten
Booker Ervin chronology
Setting the Pace
(1965) 		Heavy!!!
(1967) 		Structurally Sound
(1966)

Heavy!!! is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Prestige label.[1]

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".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

Track listing

  1. "Bächafillen" (Garnett Brown) - 8:15
  2. "You Don't Know What Love Is (Don Raye, Gene de Paul) - 8:43
  3. "Aluminum Baby" (Jaki Byard) - 5:00
  4. "Not Quite That" (Brown) - 7:54
  5. "Bei Mir Bist du Schoen" (Sholom Secunda, Jacob Jacobs, Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin) - 12:28
  6. "Ode to Charlie Parker" (Byard) - 3:57 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Booker Ervin discography accessed February 1, 2011
  2. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed February 1, 2011
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 72. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 450. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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