Exultation!

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{{Infobox album

| name = Exultation!

| type = Album

| artist = Booker Ervin

| cover = Exultation!.jpg

| alt =

| released = October 1963[https://books.google.com/books?id=TwsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=booker+ervin+exultation&pg=PA40 Billboard November 9, 1963]

| recorded = June 19, 1963

| venue =

| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

| genre = Jazz

| length = 36:51 1963 LP
41:58 1970 LP/CD reissue

| label = Prestige
PRLP 7293 (1963)
PRLP 7844 (1970)

| producer = Don Schlitten

| chronology = Booker Ervin

| prev_title = That's It!

| prev_year = 1961

| next_title = Gumbo!

| next_year = 1963

| misc = {{Extra album cover

| header = Alternative cover

| type = Album

| cover = Booker-ervin-exultation.jpg

| border =

| alt =

| caption = 1970 LP reissue (PRLP 7844)

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Exultation! is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin featuring performances recorded in 1963 for the Prestige label.[http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/ErvinBooker-ldr.php Booker Ervin discography] accessed February 4, 2011 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").

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".Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/exultation-r68958 AllMusic Review] accessed February 4, 2011

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}

|rev2 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev2Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| author-link =

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = 72

}}

|rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=450}}

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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

References