Description
Booker Ervin, Pony Poindexter, Larry Young – Gumbo! / Prestige Audio CD 1999 / PRCD-24229-2
UPC 025218522922
Gumbo! is an album by saxophonists Pony Poindexter and Booker Ervin which was released on the Prestige label in 1963. The 1999 CD reissue added eight unreleased selections from earlier sessions, three led by Poindexter and five by Ervin.
Al Campbell of Allmusic stated: "Tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin joined alto and soprano saxophonist Pony Poindexter in 1963 on Gumbo, based around the sights and sounds of Poindexter's birthplace, the Crescent City. Poindexter penned the majority of these compositions, providing them with evocative titles of the city". Reviewing the CD reissue with bonus tracks for All About Jazz, Derek Taylor observed: "Though this disc does consist of a rather bizarre match of sessions the music is uniformly entertaining and should be investigated, particularly by listeners who harbor an appreciation for Ervin".
| Label: | Prestige – PRCD-24229-2 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | US |
| Released: |
1999 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Style: | Post Bop |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Front Of Town | |
| 2 | Happy Strut | |
| 3 | Creole Girl | |
| 4 | 4-11-44 | |
| 5 | Back O' Town | |
| 6 | Muddy Dust | |
| 7 | French Market | |
| 8 | Gumbo Filet | |
| 9 | Moody's Mood For Love | |
| 10 | Blue And Sentimental | |
| 11 | Wade In The Water | |
| 12 | Absotively Posalutely | |
| 13 | You Don't Know What Love Is | |
| 14 | You Don't Know What Love Is (Alternate) | |
| 15 | Autumn Leaves | |
| 16 | Old Folks |
- Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Pony Poindexter (tracks: 1 to 11)
- Bass – George Tucker (tracks: 1 to 11)
- Drums – Jerry Thomas (3) (tracks: 12 to 16), Jimmie Smith (tracks: 1 to 11)
- Organ – Larry Young (tracks: 12 to 16)
- Photography By – Don Schlitten, Lee Tanner
- Piano – Gildo Mahones (tracks: 1 to 11)
- Remastered By – Joe Tarantino
- Supervised By – Ozzie Cadena
- Tenor Saxophone – Booker Ervin (tracks: 1 to 8, 12 to 16)
- Trombone – Al Grey (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 6)
