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Don Fagerquist was the first focus of our attention in this series about lesser-
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known brilliant trumpet players of the 1950's. If Fagerquist's playing was
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pretty much down-the-middle, Booker Little set up musical camp farther out Steve Provizer.
on the edge. Fagerquist was anchored in jazz developments of the 40's and Utility Enhancements.

early 50's, while Booker looked ahead to the 60's.

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Booker Little was born in 1938 in Memphis, a city where Phineas Newborn, Jr.
was elder to a number of future jazz artists, such as Frank Strozier, trumpeter
Louis Smith (Booker's cousin) and George Coleman, who got Booker
moving seriously toward jazz.

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In 1954, after high school, Booker moved to Chicago and got a Bachelors
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degree in music at the Chicago Conservatory. For nine months of his stay, he
roomed with Sonny Rollins, who was in Chicago preparing to join the Clifford
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Booker made his first recording and eventually gigged. The musicians in Successful
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Roach's circle and those he knew from early Memphis days became many of Embouchures
the people he ran with during the short span of his career. His first recording
was in June, 1956 and he died on October 5, 1961 of uraemic
poisoning/kidney failure at the age of 23. The Truth About
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Booker articulated his views on music in a valuable Metronome magazine

article by Robert Levin, an article used as the basis of this piece by Dan
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Miller. One way to introduce Booker's music is to quote his own words from Basement. Or,
Lower Register-
that interview: Philia by Steve
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"Most of the guys who are thinking completely conventionally--they'd say 'Well
"The Institute's
maybe you've got a wrong note in there.' But I can't think in terms of wrong New Jazz
Typology" by
notes--in fact, I don't hear any notes as being wrong. It's a matter of knowing Steve Provizer
how to integrate the notes and, if you must, how to resolve them. Because if
you insist that this note or that note is wrong I think you're thinking St. Paddy's Jazz
conventionally-technically, and forgetting about emotion. Show

Booker continues: "And I don't think that anyone would deny that more Professor
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emotion can be reached and expressed outside of the conventional diatonic Jazz Art Gallery
way of playing which consists of whole-steps and half-steps. There's more
emotion that can be expressed by the notes that are played flat. Say it's a
B-flat, but you play it flat and it's not an A and it's not a B-flat, it's between "An Untold
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them and in places you can employ that and I think it has great values. Or say Story" by Steve
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the clash of a B-natural against a B-flat."

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You can hear that philosophy-find the emotion-reflected in Booker's playing, for Trumpeters

although not in a radical way. That is, rather than playing "free"- without
distinct tonal guidelines, he stays "inside." He finds his way to emotional

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expressiveness through other means; chiefly by his sound and by paying a
great deal of attention to shaping individual tones.

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The tone itself, like Freddie Hubbard's, is broad, open and bronze-like [for
2023 (3)
trumpet nerds: think of a large bore Schilke, with a 1-C cup mouthpiece].
2022 (2)
Booker adds embellishments to a high percentage of his notes: smears, near-
2021 (1)
smears, half-valves and other shadings. He is also likely to snap quickly
2020 (11)
between registers, creating a sense of dislocation. Despite the clarity 2019 (4)
of Booker's tone, even at its most stentorian it doesn't sound "martial." There 2018 (4)
remains a vulnerable quality that I have yet to hear in another player. 2017 (44)

2016 (26)
We'll begin by listening to a lovely ballad performance-"Moonlight Becomes 2015 (36)
You," from the October 1958 album, "Booker Little 4 and Max Roach." 2014 (43)
2013 (42)
2012 (61)
December (5)
November (8)
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The next track is from the Frank Strozier Lp "Runnin," recorded in 1959. I
August (3)
include this because I think it shows the reason Booker wanted to concentrate
July (6)
on non-traditional forms. The tune is based on "rhythm" changes and he's June (6)
essentially running lines that aren't really connected enough to create a May (3)
larger cohesive form. They follow the chord changes broadly, but are actually April (4)
pretty diatonic within each sub grouping of changes and, while technically March (8)
proficient, just aren't as interesting as his playing in more convivial harmonic February (3)
contexts. http://youtu.be/ktI-X8nx558 January (8)

2011 (60)
Here he is in a Teddy Charles Sextet recording from August, 1960, with Booker 2010 (79)
Ervin, tenor, Mal Waldron, piano, Ed Shaughnessy, drums, Addison Farmer, 2009 (6)
bass. The tune is "The Confined Few" (I think we'd have to change that title
nowadays). Here, while still dealing with frequent chord changes, he has Matt's Blog

more range for emotional expression. If we don't get to hear him hold long Matt Lavelle was a long-time
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Linkably Yours, (Brass).

Amir El Saffar.
Bill Dixon.
E. Dean Sahutske.
Forbes Graham.
Grachan Moncur III.
Hannibal Lokumbe.
Jeff Albert.
Jen Baker.

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Kris Tiner.
Lewis Barnes.
Matt Lavelle.
Nicole Rampersaud.
Roy Campbell Jr.
Stephen Haynes.
Steve Swell.
Taylor Ho Bynum.
Tom Plsek.
Wadada Leo Smith.

Linkably Yours, (Ensembles).

Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Burnt Sugar.
Creative Nation Music.
Either Orchestra.
Inti Illimani.
Le Zhange & Elden Kelly.
Makanda Project.
Sonic Explorers.
Sun Ra Arkestra.
The AACM.
Y'All.

Linkably Yours, (Keyboards).

Andrea Parkins.
Andy McWain.
Christopher Culpo.
Connie Crothers.
Curtis Clark.
Dave Burrell.
Dr. Lewis Porter.
Eric Zinman.
John Blum.
Matthew Shipp.
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol.
Pandelis Karayorgis.
Randy Weston.
Steve Lantner.
Ted Reichman.

Linkably Yours, (Percussion).

Bobby Naughton.
Curt Newton.
Dee Pop.
Federico Ughi.
Gerry Hemingway.
Gunter Hampel.
Jan Van Voorst.
Laurence Cook.
Luther Gray.
Milford Graves.
Ryan Sawyer.
Thurman Barker.
Warren Smith.
William Hooker.

Linkably Yours, (Prog, etc.)

Albert Marcoeur.
Alea III.
Amy Denio.
Art Zoyd.

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Cordelia's Dad.
David Greenberger.
Devil Music Ensemble.
Doug Watts.
Heiner Goebbels.
Michael Gandolfi.
Picchio Dal Pozzo.

Linkably Yours, (Reeds & Winds).

Anthony Braxton.
Archie Shepp.
Charlie Kohlhase.
Chris Veilleux.
Dana Jessen.
Daniel Carter.
David S. Ware.
Dennis Shafer.
Dr. Yusef Lateef.
James Merenda.
Jeremy Udden.
Jim Hobbs.
Julee Avallone.
Keefe Jackson.
Ken Field.
Ken Vandermark.
Luther Thomas.
Matt Langley.
Nicole Mitchell.
Odean Pope.
Ornette Coleman.
Paul Carlon.
Petr Cancura.
Ras Moshe.
Ravi Coltrane.
Rob Brown.
Sabir Mateen.
Saco Yasuma.
Sonny Simmons.
Todd Brunel.
Tom Hall.

Linkably Yours. (Strings.)

Akua Dixon.
Albey Balgochian.
Bern Nix.
Bob Nieske.
Bruno Raberg.
Daniel Levin.
Ed Ricart.
Electra Kurtis.
Eugene Chadbourne.
Francois Grillot.
Garrison Fewell.
Garth Stevenson.
Henry Grimes.
Henry Kaiser.
Hilliard Greene.
Jacob William.
James Blood Ulmer.
Jeff Platz.
Jeff Song.
Joe Fonda.
Joelle Leandre.

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John Voigt.
Junko Simons.
Kalman Magyar.
Katt Hernandez
Kevin Frenette.
Kit Demos.
LaDonna Smith.
Lily Afshar.
Mary Halvorson.
Michael Bisio.
Mike Baggetta.
Reuben Radding.
Richard 'Duck' Baker.
Shayna Dulberger.
Sten Hostfalt.
Tim Webb.
William Parker.

Linkably Yours, (Voice).

Aiko Shimada.
Andre Matos.
Diana Norma Szokolyai.
Ellen Christi.
Fay Victor.
Jay Clayton.
Jayne Cortez.
Kyoko Kitamura.
Lola Danza.
Mala Waldron.
Maria Tegzes.
Melissa Kassel.
Oumou Sangare.
Sara Serpa.
Selen Gulun.
Sofija Knezevic.

Rewarding Resources, Reads.

Al Young.
Alex Rodriguez.
Avant Music News.
Dan Melnick.
Denis Charles.
Empty Mirror Books.
Free Jazz.
Gerard Cox.
Ishmael Reed.
James Ricci.
Jason Crane Poetry.
Jazz News.
Jim Kunstler.
Lyn Horton.
Matt LeGroulx.
Max Beauvoir.
Metal Jazz.
Perfect Sound Forever.
Peter Breslin.
Poetry of Henry Grimes.
Point of Departure.
Robert Levin.
Scott Anderson.
Stephen Haynes.
Steve Dalachinsky.
Taylor Ho Bynum.

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