The Blues Book (album)

The Blues Book is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin featuring performances recorded in 1964 for the Prestige label.

Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "The consistently passionate Ervin makes each of the fairly basic originals sound fresh and the performances are frequently exciting inside/outside music".

Track listing

 * All compositions by Booker Ervin.


 * 1) "Eerie Dearie" - 14:30
 * 2) "One for Mort" - 6:24
 * 3) "No Booze Blooze" - 15:26
 * 4) "True Blue" - 5:07

Personnel

 * Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone
 * Carmell Jones - trumpet
 * Gildo Mahones - piano
 * Richard Davis - bass
 * Alan Dawson - drums