Booker Ervin Booker Ervin artist page: interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music

Booker Ervin

Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie performs at the Boston Globe Jazz and Blues Festival on Jan. 15, 1966. Bob Daugherty/AP hide caption

toggle caption
Bob Daugherty/AP

How To Like Jazz, For The Uninitiated

  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/793722676/793722677" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript

Booker Ervin on the cover of The Book Cooks, his debut album. Courtesy of Bethlehem Records hide caption

toggle caption
Courtesy of Bethlehem Records

No Need To Cook The Books: Booker Ervin's Debut LP Reissued

  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/244528394/244529858" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript