wiseone2

He played a Bach Strad as I recall
Here's a video.
http://www.dailymotion.com/search/Bo...le/video/58648
Wilmer

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Wilmer-

damn@$#@!!! That is great! Thank you for the link. I hadn't seen Booker on video before - he's one of my idols.

Booker Little is one of the greatest trumpet players in the history of jazz. It's a shame that his life was so short. He died at age 23. Even at his early age you can hear absolute control over the instrument. His tone would fit gracefully into an orchestral brass section, his improvisations contained concepts that were advanced for the time (late 50's), and his arrangements were stellar!

Here are some sides that are currently available on CD:

"Out Front" - Candid CCD79027
"New York Sessions" - Lionhilljazz LHJ10110
"Sounds of the Inner City" - Collectables COL-CD-6131 (some duplicate material)
"Booker Little" - Time jazz series, Bainbridge records BCD1041
"Booker Little and Friend" Bethlehem 20-40102
"Booker Little 4" Blue Note CDP 7 84457 2

Plus side work with Eric Dolphy, Max Roach and others...

If you don't know this guy's work, you owe it to yourself to check it out. Really.

Wilmer- do you have any more titles of his that are re-issued on CD? thanks.

cool.
-Kelly

(edit: OK, I'm still kind of new to this forum... I just did a search and found the Booker Little Recordings thread. whooops. thanks all for you patience w/ my posts. hehe.)

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For about the last 20 years or so Paul Berliner (he of Thinking in Jazz and all those mbira recordings from Namibia) has been working on a book of transcriptions of every single last Booker Little recording there ever was, false starts, alternate takes, every scrap. The are over 180. I was hired to do seven, mostly from the recording with Frank Strozier, a buddy from Memphis. I spent a lot of time with them, and I have to say I came out of the experience thinking that this guy might be the best ever. He's way more difficult than Clifford, very different. Such agility in all registers, never playing a dominant unaltered, tremendous rhythm and drive, and extraordinarily accurate. And just plain beautiful.
I met his teacher from the American Conservatory, a terrific older guy about town, Joe Summerhill, who Paul interviewed for the book. Booker came to Chicago at age sixteen to study at the American Conservatory. Joe said he was an Arban freak, and would sometimes play all the 14 characteristic studies back to back in a day. Booker's dad was a Pullman porter and his route took him through Chicago every Saturday, and every Saturday he'd come to the school and make an installment payment on Booker's tuition in cash.I did the Shrine Circus a couple years running with Joe and the occasional gig around town. He does horn repair work too, and put a lead pipe on an old Bach I used to play before I discovered the delights of Yamaha.

Anyhow, that's what I know about Booker.

Michael McLaughlin

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Video was deleted....

Too bad I really wanted to see it...

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wiseone2

Try this link-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js64I...&search=Booker
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wiseone2

Here's another clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82iay...ooker%20Little

Wilmer

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Wilmer[/quote]Here's another clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82iay...ooker%20Little

Wilmer[/quote]

Thanks for the tip. A short-lived but tremendous group. I'll have to get out my vinyl and burn them to CD. Poor Max, first Clifford and then Booker.

Michael McLaughlin

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