Booker Little - Booker Little 4 & Max Roachn '1991

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Milestones (Davis) - 5:36
02. Sweet and Lovely (Arnheim-Tobias) - 4:16
03. Rounders Mood (Little) - 5:23
04. Dungeon Waltz (Little) - 4:29
05. Jewels Tempo (Little) - 6:37
06. Moonlight Becomes You (Van Heusen-Burke) - 5:42
07. Things Aint What They Used to Be (Ellington) - 10:48
08. Blue n Boogie (Gillespie-Paparelli) - 8:10

his CD reissue features trumpeter Booker Little at the beginning of his
tragically brief career. The first six selections find the distinctive soloist
playing with a quintet also including the young tenor George Coleman, pianist
Tommy Flanagan, bassist Art Davis, and drummer Max Roach (who was his regular
employer at the time). Little contributed three now-obscure originals and also
plays two standards and an early version of Miles Davis Milestones. The
remainder of the CD has lengthy versions of Things Aint What They Used to Be and
Blue n Boogie from a jam session that matched Little with fellow Memphis-based
players including Coleman, altoist Frank Strozier, and the masterful pianist
Phineas Newborn. Overall, this forward-looking hard bop set is easily
recommended.~Scott Yanow

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