Booker Little

Booker Little

Infobox musical artist
Name = Booker Little



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Birth_name = Booker Little, Jr.
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Born = April 2, 1938
Died = death date and age|1961|10|5|1938|4|2
Origin = flagicon|USA Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Instrument = trumpet
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Genre = Hard bop
Avant-garde jazz
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Associated_acts = Johnny Griffin, Eric Dolphy
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Booker Little, Jr (2 April, 1938 in Memphis, Tennessee – 5 October, 1961 in New York City, New York) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.

Despite his premature death at age 23, Little made an important contribution to the jazz music. Stylistically, Little's sound is rooted in the playing of Clifford Brown, featuring crisp articulation, a burnished tone and balanced phrasing. He is considered to be one of the first trumpet players to develop his own sound after Clifford Brown.

He studied at the Chicago Conservatory from (1956-58) and it was during this time that he worked with leading local musicians such as Johnny Griffin. Later, after moving to New York, he became associated with drummer Max Roach and multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Eric Dolphy, recording with them both as a sideman and a leader. With Dolphy, he co-led a residency at the Five Spot club in New York in June 1961, from which three classic albums were eventually issued by Prestige Records. It was during this stint, that he began to show promise of expanding the expressive range of the "vernacular" Bebop idiom started by Clifford Brown in the mid 50's. He also appeared on Dolphy's album "Far Cry" (New Jazz 8270), recorded December 21, 1960. He died of complications resulting from uremia on October 5, 1961 in New York City, New York.

Little's discography as a leader:
* "Booker Little 4 + Max Roach" (1958) for United Artists
* "Booker Little Quartet" (1960) for Time
* "Out Front" (1961) for Candid, generally considered his best work
* "Booker Little and Friend" (reissued as "Victory and Sorrow") for Bethlehem, recorded a few weeks before his death.

Selected works as a sideman:
* John Coltrane Quartet: "Africa/Brass" (Impulse!, 1960)
* Eric Dolphy: "Far Cry" (Prestige, 1960)
* Eric Dolphy: "At the Five Spot" (New Jazz / OJC, 1961)
* Abbey Lincoln: "Straight Ahead" (Candid, 1961)
* Max Roach: "Deeds, Not Words" (Riverside, 1958)
* Max Roach: "Max Roach Plus Four on the Chicago Scene" (EmArcy, 1958)
* Max Roach: "We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite" (Candid, 1960)
* Max Roach: "Percussion Bitter Sweet" (Impulse!, 1961)
* Frank Strozier: "The Fantastic Frank Strozier" (Vee-Jay, 1960)

References

*cite web|accessdate=2007-04-29|url=http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/little_booker/bio.jhtml
title= Booker Little Biography |author=Scott Yanow |work=All Music Guide
publisher=VH1.com

* Sinclair, John and Robert Levin (1970). "An Interview with Booker Little - Music & Politics". World

*cite web|accessdate=2007-04-29|url=http://www.jazzdisco.org/little/dis/c/
title=Booker Little Discography
publisher=Jazz Discography Project


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