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Gumbo!

Gumbo!
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Studio album by Pony Poindexter with Booker Ervin
Released 1963
Recorded June 27, 1963
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length 75:29 CD reissue with bonus tracks
Label Prestige
PR 16001
Producer Ozzie Cadena
Pony Poindexter chronology
Pony Poindexter Plays the Big Ones
(1963)
Gumbo!
(1963)
Annie Ross & Pony Poindexter
(1966)
Booker Ervin chronology
Exultation!
(1963)
Gumbo!
(1963)
The Freedom Book
(1963)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars

Gumbo! is an album by saxophonists Pony Poindexter and Booker Ervin which was released on the Prestige label in 1963. The 1999 CD reissue added eight unreleased selections from earlier sessions, three led by Poindexter and five by Ervin.

Al Campbell of Allmusic stated, "Tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin joined alto and soprano saxophonist Pony Poindexter in 1963 on Gumbo, based around the sights and sounds of Poindexter's birthplace, the Crescent City. Poindexter penned the majority of these compositions, providing them with evocative titles of the city". Reviewing the CD reissue with bonus tracks for All About Jazz, Derek Taylor noted "Though this disc does consist of a rather bizarre match of sessions the music is uniformly entertaining and should be investigated, particularly by listeners who harbor an appreciation for Ervin".

All compositions by Pony Poindexter except where noted.


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