Booker Ervin's Freedom Book

Yesterday morning at some unearthly hour I heard Booker Ervin's Freedom Book for the first time. I was gripped from the first note. What a brilliant album and what a inspiring bandleader and saxophonist! This an album I will play a great deal in the coming weeks and months.

Inevitably this led me to YouTube where I unearthed this gem. The lineup seems to be:

• Kenny Drew - piano
• Booker Ervin - tenor
• Edgar Bateman - drums
• Eric Dolphy Nathan Davis - flute
• Pony Poindexter - alto
• Ted Curson - trumpet
• Jimmy Woode - bass

The band is playing Milestones (and dig the TOTP camera zooms in the last 20 seconds).