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It didn’t exemplify any other trending jazz topics of the time, either: spacious modal jazz à la Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue the classical-fusion movement known as Third Stream Dave Brubeck’s rhythmic experimentation as heard on Time Out. Yet at moments it swung as hard as a typical contemporary Blue Note recording. Nor did it fit in with the hard-bop sound that defined the jazz mainstream at the time, where fellow rising trumpet stars Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan (both born, like Little, in 1938) each found a comfortable home. But it crackled with a Coleman-esque charge thanks to the saxophone work of Eric Dolphy, who in 1960 had recorded alongside Ornette on the album that would become the flagship of that movement, and would soon take part in John Coltrane’s most adventurous work to date.

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Out Front, his third LP as a leader, recorded in two sessions in the spring of ’61, didn’t feel remotely like free jazz. But before his death, he would back up his statements with an album that made the post-Ornette jazz wars seem petty and myopic. Tragically, he wouldn’t live to see 24-in October 1961, he died from uremia, essentially blood poisoning due to kidney failure. These beliefs were crystallizing at a critical time for the trumpeter. “Because if you insist that this note or that note is wrong, I think you’re thinking completely conventionally-technically-and forgetting about emotion.” “I can’t think in terms of wrong notes,” he said. For Little, dissecting an artist’s methods without considering the feelings that informed them made no sense.

“My background has been conventional,” the conservatory-trained 23-year-old told the writer Robert Levin, “and maybe because of that I haven’t become a leftist, though my ideas and tastes now might run left to a certain degree.” He went on to defend Coleman (“…I think I understand clearly what he’s doing, and it’s good”) before touching on one of his core aesthetic tenets. As he put it in a 1961 interview, if jazz were mapped on a political spectrum, he’d fall somewhere in the center. At least one thoughtful young musician, trumpeter Booker Little, wasn’t buying the binary.