Booker Little And Friend Booker Little

• 1 Victory And Sorrow 05:57
• 2 Forward Flight 06:20
• 3 Looking Ahead 07:27
• 4 If I Should Lose You 05:15
• 5 Calling Softly 05:43
• 6 Booker's Blues 05:20
• 7 Matilde 05:58
• Total Runtime 42:00

Info for Booker Little And Friend

'A CD reissue of trumpeter Booker Little's Victory and Sorrow album for Bethlehem, this release adds two previously unheard alternate takes of 'Matilde' to the original program. Little's final recording before he died of uremia at the age of 23, the sextet session also features fine playing by trombonist Julian Priester, tenor saxophonist George Coleman, pianist Don Friedman, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Pete LaRoca.

However, Booker Little is generally the top soloist on the harmonically advanced hard bop date and he is in peak form throughout although he would pass away on October 5 of that year. Of his six originals, 'Molotone Music' and 'Victory and Sorrow' are most memorable even if Little's beautiful playing on a quartet version of the date's one standard, 'If I Should Lose You,' is actually the highpoint.' (Scott Yanow)

Booker Little, trumpet
George Coleman, tenor saxophone
Julian Priester, trombone
Don Friedman, piano
Reggie Workman, bass
Pete La Roca, drums

Recorded in 1961. Remastered at Frankford Wayne Mastering Labs N.Y.
Produced by Teddy Charles

Digitally remastered

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