Exultation!

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Exultation!
Exultation!.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1963 [1]
RecordedJune 19, 1963
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length36:51 1963 LP
41:58 1970 LP/CD reissue
Label Prestige
PRLP 7293 (1963)
PRLP 7844 (1970)
Producer Don Schlitten
Booker Ervin chronology
That's It!
(1961)
Exultation!
(1963)
Gumbo!
(1963)
Alternative cover
Booker-ervin-exultation.jpg
1970 LP reissue (PRLP 7844)

Exultation! is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin featuring performances recorded in 1963 for the Prestige label. [2] It was first released in 1963, then reissued in 1971 with two alternate takes labeled "short version" (the a- and b-sides of a 1963 single, "No Land's Man" backed with "Just in Time").

Contents

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Ervin and Strozier made a mutually inspiring team; pity that this was their only recording together". [3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Track listing

All compositions by Booker Ervin except as indicated
  1. "Mooche Mooche" – 7:18
  2. "Black and Blue" (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 6:19
  3. "Mour" (Perkins) – 4:08
  4. "Just in Time" (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 2:29
  5. "Just in Time" [Long Take] (Styne, Comden, Green) – 4:55
  6. "No Land's Man" (Booker Ervin, Walter Perkins) – 2:38
  7. "No Land's Man" [Long Take] (Booker Ervin, Walter Perkins) – 5:39
  8. "Tune In" – 8:32

Personnel

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References

  1. Billboard November 9, 1963
  2. Booker Ervin discography accessed February 4, 2011
  3. 1 2 Yanow, S. AllMusic Review accessed February 4, 2011
  4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 72. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 450. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.