Heavy!!! is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Prestige label.[1]

Heavy!!!
Studio album by
Released1967
RecordedSeptember 9, 1966
Impact Studios, New York City
GenreJazz
Length46:17 CD reissue
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7499
ProducerDon Schlitten
Booker Ervin chronology
Setting the Pace
(1965)
Heavy!!!
(1967)
Structurally Sound
(1966)

Reception edit

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "The set matches Ervin with a remarkable rhythm section... The music is quite moody, soulful, and explorative yet not forbidding".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic     [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide     [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings    [4]

Track listing edit

  1. "Bächafillen" (Garnett Brown) - 8:15
  2. "You Don't Know What Love Is (Don Raye, Gene de Paul) - 8:43
  3. "Aluminum Baby" (Jaki Byard) - 5:00
  4. "Not Quite That" (Brown) - 7:54
  5. "Bei Mir Bist du Schoen" (Sholom Secunda, Jacob Jacobs, Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin) - 12:28
  6. "Ode to Charlie Parker" (Byard) - 3:57 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel edit

References edit

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