Booker Little - Booker Little 4 & Max Roach
Booker Little - trumpet [click here to see more products featuring Booker Little]
Tenor saxophone - George Coleman [click here to see more products featuring George Coleman]
Piano - Tommy Flanagan [click here to see more products featuring Tommy Flanagan]
Drums - Max Roach [click here to see more products featuring Max Roach]
Bass - Art Davis
Written by Miles Davis (A1), Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias (A2), Booker Little (A3, B1-B2), Johnny Burke, James Van Heusen (B3)
1 LP, Deluxe tip-on jacket
Original analog Master Tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record Color : Black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12''
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : Blue Note Tone Poet
Original Label : United Artists
Recorded at Nola Studios, New York City in October, 1958
Engineered by Lewis Merritt
Produced by Tom Wilson
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original master tape
Liner Notes by Jon Hendricks
Originally released in 1959
Reissued in 2024
Track :
- Milestones
- Sweet And Lovely
- Rounders Mood
Side B :
- Dungeon Waltz
- Jewel's Tempo
- Moonlight Becomes You
Reviews :
« This 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 Ain't 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." AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow.
Rating :
AllMusic : 4.5 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.67 / 5 ; DownBeat : 3 / 5 ; The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings : 3 / 4