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.