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Booker Ervin
tenor saxophonist
Denison, United States • 1930-10-31 – 1970-07-31
Booker Ervin is credited on 1,184 releases across 161 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1959–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,184
Pressings credited
161
Albums
8
Decades active
236
In collections
Credited work
1,184 releases · 161 albums · active 1959–2025
- Performance · 1,737
- Other credits · 19
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Nola Recording Studios · Columbia 30th Street Studio · Nonagon Art Gallery
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Mingus Ah Um
1959
Blues & Roots
1960
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
1964
The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz
1973
Oh Yeah
1962
Mingus
1961
The Quest
1962
Better Git It In Your Soul
1971
Grass Roots
1968
Jazz Portraits
1959
Happy Frame Of Mind
1986
Mingus At Antibes
1979
The Freedom Book
1964
Up & Down
1963
Mingus Dynasty
1960
A Night With Herbie Hancock
1980
Pre-Bird
1961
The Book Cooks
1961
I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 16
1980
Nostalgia In Times Square / The Immortal 1959 Sessions
1979
Structurally Sound
1967
The Space Book
1965
Cracklin'
1963
Sunday Afternoon At Dingwalls (Classic Moves And Grooves From The Legendary Club)
2006
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