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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: yeah. posted by jazztrumpet on November 9, 2005 at 11:18:08:
"yeah, it just never ceases to affect me to think about the brevity of his career."Me too. It's upsetting. I get bothered the same way thinking about Jaco and to a little lesser extent, Woody Shaw.
"If you are lucky enough to find it, one of his first ones in only available on vinly and it's simply titled "Booker Little." It's on Time records, and is a simply white, black, and red cover. Sick."
I think you're referring to the one with Haynes, Flanagan/Kelly, and LaFaro. I was housing some LPs for a friend for a while and that one was in there, though with a different cover. Great stuff. Let me know if that's the same one--if it's not, you're talking about a disc I've been previously unaware of. I think it has been made available on CD, but I don't have it--yet. It took me years to find Out Front on CD, though it's not too hard to get right now. Great as that one is, I said in my review here that I wish Roy had been the drummer on Out Front. I think he was more in tune with what Booker and Dolphy were doing than Max. That period includes some of Max's best and worst work (for me), and what he does on Out Front falls somewhere in between IMO.
Mrs Parker is a great tune, but the one on Far Cry that tears me up the most is Ode To Charlie Parker. Dolphy's flute and Booker's trumpet are a match made in heaven. Gorgeous.
Do you happen to know any details about his death? Was his condition exacerbated by sickle-cell? Was it treatable? Did he even see a doctor about it? Someone should write a biography before all those who knew him pass on.
dh
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