Little Blue

Trumpeter Booker Little's second session as a leader (there would only be four) is a quartet outing (with either Wynton Kelly or Tommy Flanagan on piano, bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Roy Haynes) that puts the emphasis on relaxed tempoes. Little's immediately recognizable melancholy sound and lyrical style are heard in top form on "Who Can I Turn To" and five of his originals, some of which deserve to be revived. His jazz waltz "The Grand Valse" (inspired by Sonny Rollins' "Valse Hot") is a highpoint of this set.

Most of you will recognize the name Jan Schelhaas because you bought one of the Camel (“I can't see your house from here”, “Nude”) or Caravan records (“Blind Dog at St. Dunstans”, “Better by Far”, “The Unauthorized Breakfast Item”) on which he is one of the keyboard players. In the year 2008 Jan Schelhaas made his first solo album entitled “Dark Ships”. The successor “Living on a Little Blue Dot” was inspired by Carl Sagan's “Pale Blue Dot: A vision of the Human Future in Space”. On February 14 1990, at the request of astronomer Carl Sagan, the Voyager 1 space probe was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around to take one last photograph of Earth before leaving the solar system. On the resulting image our planet appeared as a single pixel, a pale Blue Dot. The funds necessary for recording this album came from a PledgeMusic campaign…