Booker Little, Booker Ervin
Soundsof Inner City
TCB Records (US) 1970
TCB 1003 (LP)
sleeve : EX-(some slightly color-faded, slightly dirts)
media : EX-/EX-(some slightly noise caused by some slightly wear)
Originally released in 1960, this album brings together American trumpeter Booker Little — who honed his skills in Chicago during the 1950s playing with musicians such as Johnny Griffin, and later moved to New York where he worked with Max Roach, Eric Dolphy, and others while also recording numerous leader dates — and American saxophonist Booker Ervin, who had been active with Charles Mingus and Ted Curson from the late 1950s before going on to lead many excellent groups of his own in the early 1960s, before passing away in 1970 at the young age of 39. Recorded live at a concert held that same year in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the album features a sextet with a rhythm section of Mal Waldron on piano, Addison Farmer on bass, and Ed Shaughnessy on drums, joined by Teddy Charles on vibes. From fast-moving hard bop to exotic numbers in waltz time, Waldron’s piano remains fairly restrained, while Charles’ vibraphone and the two guest front-line players blend together with a soft, cool-jazz elegance. This is the US pressing released on TCB in 1970.
A1: Scoochie
B3: Wich Fire