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Tanglewood Jazz Festival Lenox, Massachusetts August 29-31, 2008 Tanglewood, in Lenox, Massachusetts, is the summer home of the Boston Symphony, and it's also home to events like an annual James Taylor concert, an annual recording of A Prairie Home Companion, and the annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival, which ran this year from August 29-31...
This is the Max Roach Quintet (Booker Little trumpet, Max Roach drums, Ray Draper tuba, George Coleman tenor saxophone, and Art Davis bass) performing Cole Porter’s “ Love for Sale ”. The video is poor but the audio is a good example of the hard bop style of jazz during the height of its popularity during the 1950’s and 1960’s. The date of this video clip is unknown but it appears to be a television...
Boing Boing tv's UK-based music correspondent Russell Porter interviews the young experimental jazz band EMPIRICAL, from London. Today's episode includes an extended musical interlude, to ensure the mellowest possible Monday for all the peeps out there in BBtv-land. The band's "influences" roster says it the best: Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Booker Little, Miles Davis,...
John Coltrane Stardust (RVG Edition) Prestige-Concord 2007 Dexter Gordon Clubhouse Blue Note 2008 Freddie Hubbard is part of the most concentrated group of trumpet talents in jazz history, born on Apr. 7th, 1938, just five days after Booker Little and three months before Lee Morgan. His brassy sound, confident attack and fluid lines mark a host of the finest recordings of the '60s, including John Coltrane's...
Your birthday today: With your extremely generous nature, you are imposed upon by others. You are sociable and gracious, and have a pleasing personality. You enjoy outdoor life, and are especially fond of flowers. Your family is very dear to you and you will always have many friends. I'm guessing you can't ask Ralph Edward Zimmerman, b. 1884, to generously offer his companionship and share this birthday...
Trumpeter Booker Little would have turned 70 this Wednesday if he were still alive. Little was born in Memphis on April 2, 1938; he died in October of 1961 at the age of 23, leaving behind a small but significant body of recorded work that continues to influence modern-day jazz artists such as tr...
This CD reissue brings back a classic album, one of the finest of drummer Max Roach's very productive career. The illustrious sidemen (trumpeter Booker Little; trombonist Julian Priester; Eric Dolphy on alto, bass clarinet, and flute; tenorman Clifford Jordan; pianist Mal Waldron; and bassist Art Davis, in addition to some guest percussionists) all have opportunities to make strong contributions and...
6a: 1. Dinosaur Jr. - Yeah We Know - Bug ( SST 1988) 2. Danava - A High or a Low - UnonoU ( Kemado 2008) 3. Blood on the Wall - Liferz - Liferz ( Social Registry 2008) 4. Magnetic Fields - Please Stop Dancing - Distortion ( Nonesuch 2008) 5. Frog Eyes - Russian Berries but You're Quiet Tonight - The Folded Palm ( Absolutely Kosher 2004) 6. Pattern is Movement - Gunsmith - The Impossibility of Longing...
Freedom Now Suite on Candid. Recorded in 1960. Track listing: Driva’ Man; Freedom Day; Triptych (Prayer, Protest, Peace); All Africa; Tears For Johannesburg. Personnel: Max Roach: drums; Booker Little: trumpet; Julian Priester: trombone; Coleman Hawkins: tenor saxophone (1); Walter Benton: tenor saxophone; James Schenck: bass; Michael Olatunji: congas; Ray Mantilla: percussion; Tomas DuVall: percussion;...
'The Damned Don't Cry' was a 1950 film noir vehicle for Joan Crawford – with that title, what else? When John Coltrane recorded the 'Africa/Brass' sessions, he included the song of the same name (ok, ok, eponymous). Introduced by drums and then bass spelling out a swaying 12/8 to underpin the ensemble entrance, led by Booker Little, before Coltrane joins them on soprano. The band produce a sonorous...
Introduction I cana(TM)t recall the reason why I picked Percussion Bitter Sweet out of a record store bin in the mid-sixties. It was one of the first recordings I ever purchased. Apart from Maxa(TM)s brilliant drumming and knotty yet accessible compositions, it served as an introduction to iconic musicians like Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, Clifford Jordan, Mal Waldron, Art Davis, and Abbey Lincoln....
In 1960, Roach would record what would become his magnum opus, an unprecedented attempt to fuse his African-American social concerns with a spoken word/instrumental jazz suite, “Freedom Now Suite – We Insist!” The recording included Coleman Hawkins, arguably one of the inventors of the tenor saxophone solo, trombonist Julian Priester and trumpeter Booker Little, brass players who, like Sonny Rollins,...
But the modernist mandate to "make it new" was ingrained in Roach's soul and he continued to push the art form forward as relentlessly as he drove a combo's front line.With trumpeter Clifford Brown, Roach led one of the most influential jazz groups of the 1950s, helping to provide an enduring template for the tough and tender genre of "hard bop." After Brown's death in a 1956 car accident, Roach continued...
The history of jazz is, more than anything, a history of rhythm. Legends are made from virtuoso flights of melodic inspiration or harmonic ingenuity. But such inventions don't happen without the rhythmic innovations that give wings to bands of all sizes, inspiring adventure in singers and horn players alike.
Philadelphia performance artist "Skip" Homer Jackson recently asked my opinion about a number of jazz artists who have been overlooked because they were great stylists who played in the shadows of great players. I immediately thought of Booker Ervin in relationship to John Coltrane; and Booker Little, who ironically was little (no pun intended) appreciated during the 1960's era of stellar jazz hornmen....
