{"product_id":"booker-ervin-the-book-cooks","title":"Booker Ervin - The Book Cooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eVinyl reissue of the classic 1961 debut album by the American jazz tenor saxophonist. Booker Ervin was one of jazz's biggest what-if's; he died young, at 39, from kidney disease, right as he was hitting another wave of sonic experiments. He was a tenor who played the blues like they emanated from deep inside him, taking inspiration from field hollers as much as bebop. He got compared to Coltrane - who made a lot of similar playing decisions - but he had a different way of playing his blues. The Book Cooks shows that Ervin arrived on the solo scene essentially fully formed; he'd change towards the end of the '60s, but this LP was a roadmap for him for the first part of his bandleader career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45296903487793,"sku":"4050538681697","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/booker-ervin-the-book-cooks","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}