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.”
Out Front
Booker Little trumpet
Eric Dolphy alto saxophone, bass clarinet & flute
Julian Priester trombone
Don Friedman piano
Art Davis double bass (tracks 1, 3 & 7)
Ron Carter double bass (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 6)
Max Roach drums, timpani & vibraphone
1 We Speak 6:44
2 Strength And Sanity 6:16
3 Quiet, Please 8:09
4 Moods In Free Time 5:43
5 Man Of Words 4:50
6 Hazy Hues 6:40
7 A New Day 5:31
Recorded at Nolas Penthouse Sound Studios, NYC,
March 17 & April 4, 1961.
And Friend
Booker Little trumpet
George Coleman tenor saxophone
Julian Priester trombone
Don Friedman piano
Reggie Workman double bass
Pete La Roca drums
8 Victory And Sorrow 5:56
9 Forward Flight 6:18
10 Looking Ahead 6:59
11 Calling Softly 5:38
12 Booker’s Blues 5:15
13 Matilde 5:53
Recorded in NYC, August or September 1961.
