Booker Little

[Durium]

BOOKER LITTLE

Another member of The Heaven's All Stars !!

Booker Little and Friend

Keep swinging

Durium

[clifford_thornton]

This has always been my favorite of the Booker Little leader sessions.

Definitely dig his work with Max a lot - that Mosaic box is essential!

[AndrewHill]

Decided to put this one on today and I agree w/ Clifford, this is a great date-right up there with the Candid.

Has anyone heard the date for Time? Had it in my hand once and put it back in the rack.

Ditto on the Roach. Really like his work with Dolphy too, especially Far Cry and the Five Spot material.

[kh1958]

Decided to put this one on today and I agree w/ Clifford, this is a great date-right up there with the Candid.

Has anyone heard the date for Time? Had it in my hand once and put it back in the rack.

Ditto on the Roach. Really like his work with Dolphy too, especially Far Cry and the Five Spot material.

The Time date is very good, I would say it is just a notch below the Candid and Bethleham dates in quality. It's a quartet date, with Scott LaFaro, Roy Haynes and Tommy Flanagan. The stereo mix on the CD is a bit extreme (two instruments in each channel), so I would love to find a mono LP some day. Booker sounds fabulous as the sole horn on this recording.

[AllenLowe]

I like Booker -

[clifford_thornton]

I'm not feeling the Time LP. I have a mono Japanese LP of it.

[sidewinder]

My copy of this is on a 70s Island LP. Released in the UK as 'The Legendary Quartet Album'. A bolt from left-field when it came out, on a label that were mainly putting out reggae and dub at the time. Great session !

[clifford_thornton]

I prefer Little with, as durium put it nicely, a closely-voiced (but just-dissonant-enough) front line. Maybe that's why the Time LP has never moved me. I've seen that Island issue, as well as a Bainbridge reissue. Did they do a dub remix?

[michel1969]

I have an original stereo of this Booker Little on Time, i have the same problem as with Candy : i do not really like those "quartet with trumpet" sessions. Call me a primitive, but i tend to be tired of the sound of the trumpet when not tempered by a Tenor or an alto. Even a fantastic session like the Joe Wilder on Savoy eventually damage my ears (although the Cherokee of this one version is a killer)