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