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The first trumpeter emerging after <a href="spotify:artist:1HJHwWck1EY096ea2iPAHO">Clifford Brown</a>'s death to gain his own sound, Booker Little had a tremendous amount of potential before his premature death. He began on trumpet when he was 12 and played with <a href="spotify:artist:52cM6vrM4MJ8g4H7Ibo5fZ">Johnny Griffin</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1lyCDYAYsVYALIu9y4uIOw">the MJT + 3</a> while attending the Chicago Conservatory. Little was with <a href="spotify:artist:6jrlNnS5B830kpi40j3S6g">Max Roach</a> (1958-1959) and then freelanced in New York. He recorded with <a href="spotify:artist:6jrlNnS5B830kpi40j3S6g">Roach</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:0A9p7WNA1VwxVyrjx92Z9F">Abbey Lincoln</a>, was on <a href="spotify:artist:2hGh5VOeeqimQFxqXvfCUf">John Coltrane</a>'s Africa/Brass album, and was well-documented during a July 1961 gig at the Five Spot with <a href="spotify:artist:6rxxu32JCGDpKKMPHxnSJp">Eric Dolphy</a>. Little had a memorable melancholy sound and his interval jumps looked toward the avant-garde, but he also swung like a hard bopper. Booker Little led four sessions (one album apiece for United Artists, Time, Candid, and Bethlehem), but died of uremia at the age of 23, a particularly tragic loss. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi
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