Booker Little - Out Front To And Friend Revisited

2024

Out Front
Booker Little trumpet, Eric Dolphy alto saxophone, bass clarinet & flute, Julian Priester trombone, Don Friedman piano, Art Davis double bass,
Ron Carter double bass, Max Roach drums, timpani & vibraphone.

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

The material on From Out Front To Booker Little And Friend Revisited is Little’s collective chef d’oeuvre. It is exploratory but
also strewn with retentions from tradition. The dense yet sonorous dissonance, the graceful tempo and metre shifts, the extended
forms that give equal weight to composed and improvised sections, together these „alter the present“ and „direct the past“.
– Chris May