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Biography

Booker Little Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter whose brief career in New York in the late 1950s and early 1960s included collaborations with several top artists including drummer Max Roach, saxophonist and clarinetist Eric Dolphy, trombonist Slide Hampton and saxophonist John Coltrane. He recorded with them and others and released four albums as leader: 'Booker Little 4 and Max Roach' (1958), 'Booker Little' (1960), 'Out Front' (1961) and 'Booker Little and Friend' (1961), which was later re-released as 'Victory and Sorrow'. He died from complications of uremia aged 23 in October 1961.
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