Booker Little, Jr (born on April 2, 1938 in Memphis, Tennessee-died October 5, 1961 in New York City, NY) was a United States jazz trumpeter and composer. 2 April is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: The River City, The Bluff City Motto: Official website: http://www. ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the early 1920s in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... A trumpeter may be one of several things: A trumpeter is a musician who plays the trumpet. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...

Despite having one of the shortest careers in jazz history, Little nevertheless made a noteworthy contribution to the music. Stylistically Little belongs to the lineage of Clifford Brown, featuring crisp articulation, a burnished tone and balanced phrasing. Clifford Brown: Memorial Album on Blue Note Records. ...

He trained at Chicago Conservatory (1956-58) and worked with leading local musicians such as Johnny Griffin. Later, moving to New York, his most significant associations were with drummer Max Roach and multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy, recording with them both under his own name and theirs. With Dolphy, he co-led a residency at the Five Spot club in New York in June 1961, from which three classic albums were eventually issued by Prestige Records. Here he showed promise of expanding the expressive range of the "vernacular" be-bop idiom of Clifford Brown. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Arnold Griffin III (born in 1928) is an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist. ... Maxwell Lemuel Roach (born January 10, 1924-) is a jazz drummer and composer. ... Out to Lunch, 1964 Eric Allan Dolphy (born June 20, 1928 in Los Angeles, CA- June 29, 1964 in Berlin, Germany) was a jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet and was educated at Los Angeles City College. ... The Five Spot Cafe was located in New York City at the corner of Cooper Square and St. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Prestige Records was a record label founded by Bob Weinstock in 1949, initially as New Jazz. ...

Only four albums under his own name were recorded: Booker Little 4 + Max Roach (1958) for United Artists, Booker Little Quartet (1960) for Time, his masterpiece Out Front (1961) for Candid and finally Booker Little and Friend (reissued as Victory and Sorrow) for Bethlehem mere weeks before his passing. 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The current United Artists logo. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Candid Records was founded as a subsiduary of Archie Bleyers Cadence label in New York City in 1960. ... The Church of the Nativity, a Bethlehem Landmark Bethlehem (Arabic بيت لحم (help· info) house of meat; Standard Hebrew בית לחם house of bread, Bet léḥem / Bet láḥem; Tiberian Hebrew Bêṯ léḥem / Bêṯ lāḥem) (Greek: Βηθλεέμ) is a city in the West Bank under Palestinian Authority considered a central hub of...

He died from uremia at the age of 23. Uremia is a toxic condition resulting from renal failure, when kidney function is compromised and urea, a waste product normally excreted in the urine, is retained in the blood. ...