GUMBO! / Pony Poindexter, Booker Ervin / 1963-64 / 1999 torrent

A highly blues flavored album from 1963 reissued in 1999 with extra tracks.



"The 3 unifying factors here are the soprano and alto saxophonist (and some-

time vocalist) Norwood "Pony" Poindexter (1926-1988), the wailing Texas tenor

saxist Booker Ervin (1930-1970), and copious, previously unreleased 1963

material featuring both. Ervin is a sideman on Poindexter's GUMBO!, a tuneful

blues suite devoted to and evocative of the sounds, sights, aromas, tastes,

people and spirits of the latter's hometown of New Orleans. This 1963 LP,

long unavailable domestically and coveted by collectors, also spotlights Al

Grey, longtime star trombonist of the Count Basie Orchestra. The underrated

Poindexter is heard additionally as a vocalist on 4 previously unissued tracks

from a 1963 quartet session that produced the album PONY POINDEXTER PLAYS THE

BIG ONES, while Ervin reappears on 5 cuts taken from a never-before-released

quartet date led by the forward-looking organist Larry Young (1940-1978) that

will surely enhance the discographies of both of these important modernists."



......uncredited comments from jewel case back