Booker Little 4, Max Roach – Booker Little 4 & Max Roach (VG+/VG) – LP, JP 1970, No OBI

Booker Little 4 & Max Roach is an LP by Max Roach, Booker Little 4 from 1970 released on the United Artists Records label.

About this album

Booker Little 4 & Max Roach is a striking hard-bop session that captures two of jazz’s most inventive voices in sharp, high-pressure form. Recorded in 1959, the album brings Booker Little’s lyrical, harmonically alert trumpet into close dialogue with Max Roach’s searching drumming and band leadership. The result is music that feels both disciplined and restless, with strong ensemble writing and plenty of room for improvisation. Pieces such as Milestones and Rounders Mood show how the group could move from cool-headed clarity to urgent drive, helping place the record among the era’s most distinctive late-1950s modern jazz statements.

Genre: Jazz