Time: 50:48
Size: 116.3 MB
Styles: Bop, Trumpet jazz
Year: 1961/2011
Art: Front
[ 5:36] 1. Milestones
[ 5:19] 2. Rounder's Mood
[ 8:09] 3. Blue 'n Boogie
[ 4:27] 4. Dungeon Waltz
[ 6:34] 5. Jewel's Tempo
[ 5:40] 6. Moonlight Becomes You
[10:45] 7. Things Ain't What They Used To Be
[ 4:14] 8. Sweet And Lovely
Bass – Art Davis; Drums – Max Roach; Piano – Tommy Flanagan; Tenor Saxophone – George Coleman; Trumpet – Booker Little. Recorded in New York, October 1958.
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. ~Scott Yanow
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. ~Scott Yanow
Milestones mc
Milestones zippy
Thank you.
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