Blues & Roots

Tracklist

• 1
  Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
  5:43
• 2
  Cryin' Blues
  5:03
• 3
  Moanin'
  8:02
• 4
  Tensions
  6:30
• 5
  My Jelly Roll Soul
  6:50
• 6
  E's Flat Ah's Flat Too
  6:47
• 7
  Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (alternate take)
  6:59
• 8
  Tensions (alternate take)
  5:18
• 9
  My Jelly Roll Soul (alternate take)
  11:25
• 10
  E's Flat Ah's Flat Too (alternate take)
  6:47

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Release credits

• Booker Ervin
  tenor saxophone
• Charles Mingus
  double bass [1-3, 3-10]
• Dannie Richmond
  drums (drum set)
• Horace Parlan
  piano [1-5, 7-9]
• Jackie McLean
  alto saxophone
• Jimmy Knepper
  trombone
• John Handy
  alto saxophone
• Mal Waldron
  piano [6, 10]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer
• Pepper Adams
  baritone saxophone
• Tom Dowd
  recording
• Willie Dennis
  trombone

Issues

• B
  (Combined release view)
• 

  B
  Blues & Roots

  12" Vinyl
  4 April 1960
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  B
  Blues & Roots

  12" Vinyl (76 Germany vinyl reprint)
  1976
• 

  B
  Blues & Roots

  CD
  7 July 1987
• B
  Blues & Roots

  CD (BMG club edition)
  August 1987
• 

  B
  Blues & Roots

  CD
  3 March 1998
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  B
  Blues & Roots

  CD
  1998
• 

  B
  Blues & Roots

  CD (Atlantic Masters)
  2002
• B
  Blues & Roots

  Vinyl
  7 February 2005
• B
  Blues & Roots

  CD (24bit / mini LP replica)
  24 January 2007
• B
  Blues & Roots

  CD
  2010
• 

  B
  Blues & Roots

  Digital Media (24bits 96khz "HD FLAC" from hdtracks)
  2014
• 

  B
  Blues & Roots

  Hybrid SACD (CD layer), Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels)
  20 October 2023
• B
  Blues & Roots

  2x 12" Vinyl (Stereo remastered at 45 rpm)
  2023
• B
  Blues & Roots

  CD
• 

  B
  Blues & Roots

  Digital Media (mono)
• 

  B
  Blues & Roots

  Digital Media
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