Booker Little: Booker Little 4 and Max Roach LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-56 Kenny Dorham & more

Kenny Dorham & more

Melody Gardot and acclaimed pianist Philippe Powell have recorded an intimate album of brooding jazz torch songs

For some listeners it changed forever in that moment

During that time they’ve become so deeply attuned that on Street of Dreams they seem to breathe as one

Booker Little: Booker Little 4 and Max Roach LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-56 Kenny Dorham & moreUnited Artists, 1959 Memphis born trumpeter Booker Little was a bright light of the jazz world who died tragically young at age 23. A prodigiously talented hornman as well as a composer, Little first came to prominence as a member of Max Roachs band which he joined in 1956 after the death of Clifford Brown, another trumpet great gone far too soon. Little only made a handful of albums as a leader during his brief career including his astounding debut