''The Song Book'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin featuring performances recorded in 1964 for the

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Reception

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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
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Track listing

# " The Lamp Is Low" (

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, Maurice Ravel, Bert Shefter) - 7:16 # "Come Sunday" ( Duke Ellington) - 5:39 # " All the Things You Are" ( Oscar Hammerstein II,

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, Sam M. Lewis) - 5:56 # " Yesterdays" (

Otto Harbach Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963) was an American lyricist and librettist of nearly 50 musical comedies and operettas. Harbach collaborated as lyricist or librettist with many of the leading B ...

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Love Is Here to Stay "Love Is Here to Stay" is a popular song and jazz standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin for the movie ''The Goldwyn Follies'' (1938). History "Love Is Here to Stay" was first performed by Kenny Baker in ''The Goldw ...

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, Ira Gershwin) - 6:27

Personnel

* Booker Ervin -

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

Tommy Flanagan Thomas Lee Flanagan (March 16, 1930 – November 16, 2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He grew up in Detroit, initially influenced by such pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, and Nat King Cole, and then by bebop musicians. ...

- piano * Richard Davis - bass *

Alan Dawson Alan Dawson (July 14, 1929 – February 23, 1996) was an American jazz drummer and percussion teacher based in Boston. Biography Dawson was born in Marietta, Pennsylvania and raised in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Serving in the U.S. Army during th ...

- drums

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Song Book, The Prestige Records albums Booker Ervin albums 1964 albums Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio Albums produced by Don Schlitten