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The Complete Albums Collection

3.1M streams

3,149,572

Booker Little 4 & Max Roach

1.4M streams

1,385,975

Out Front (Remastered)

750.7K streams

750,681

Far Cry

742.4K streams

742,440

Complete Quartet Recordings

527.4K streams

527,369

Young Trumpet Fantastic

381.9K streams

381,865

Booker Little

316.5K streams

316,464

Booker Little and Friend (Remastered 2...

88.9K streams

88,878

Golden Hits by Booker Little Vol 1

7K streams

7,043

The New York Sessions Featuring Booker...

4.6K streams

4,607

Biography

The first trumpeter emerging after Clifford Brown's death to gain his own sound, Booker Little had a tremendous amount of potential before his premature death. He began on trumpet when he was 12 and played with Johnny Griffin and the MJT + 3 while attending the Chicago Conservatory. Little was with Max Roach (1958-1959) and then freelanced in New York. He recorded with Roach and Abbey Lincoln, was on John Coltrane's Africa/Brass album, and was well-documented during a July 1961 gig at the Five Spot with Eric Dolphy. Little had a memorable melancholy sound and his interval jumps looked toward the avant-garde, but he also swung like a hard bopper. Booker Little led four sessions (one album apiece for United Artists, Time, Candid, and Bethlehem), but died of uremia at the age of 23, a particularly tragic loss. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi