Little Man Big Band

Little Man Big Band
Little Man Big Band
Studio album by Jimmy Heath
Released	1992
Recorded	January 30 & 31 and March 3, 1992; BMG Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	51:56
Label	Verve; 314 513 956-2
Producer	Bill Cosby
Jimmy Heath chronology

Little Man Big Band (also written Little Man, Big Band) is a Grammy-nominated album by saxophonist Jimmy Heath^[1] featuring performances recorded in 1992 and released on the Verve label.^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]

David Dupont at Allmusic noted "Jimmy Heath brings to life his compositions, including his greatest hits 'CTA' and 'Gingerbread Boy,' with blaring, upper register trumpets, punchy trombone countermelodies and swirling saxophone ensembles".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Jimmy Heath except as indicated

"Trane Connections" - 5:04
"Two Friends" (Bill Cosby, Stu Gardner) - 4:24
"The Voice of the Saxophone" - 7:46
"Forever Sonny" - 6:56
"C.T.A." - 7:01
"Ellington's Stray Horn" - 7:18
"Gingerbread Boy" - 5:06
"Without You, No Me" - 8:21

Personnel

Jimmy Heath - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, conductor
Ted Nash, Jerome Richardson - alto saxophone
Bill Easley - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Billy Mitchell, Loren Schoenberg - tenor saxophone
Danny Bank - baritone saxophone
John Eckert, Virgil Jones, Bob Millikan, Claudio Roditi, Lew Soloff - trumpet
Eddie Bert, John Mosca, Benny Powell - trombone
Jack Jeffers - bass trombone
Tony Purrone - guitar
Roland Hanna - piano
Ben Brown - bass
Lewis Nash - drums
Steve Kroon - percussion

References

^ Watrous, Peter (August 6, 1994). "POP REVIEW; A Masterly Artist Comes Into His Own". Retrieved 22 July 2017.
^ Fitzgerald, M. Jimmy Heath discography, accessed April 22, 2014
^ ^a ^b Dupont, D., Allmusic Review accessed April 22, 2014

[1] Watrous, Peter (August 6, 1994). "POP REVIEW; A Masterly Artist Comes Into His Own". Retrieved 22 July 2017.

[2] Fitzgerald, M. Jimmy Heath discography, accessed April 22, 2014

[Allmusic-3] Dupont, D., Allmusic Review accessed April 22, 2014

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v t e Jimmy Heath
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.
As leader or co-leader	The Thumper (1959) Really Big! (1960) The Quota (1961) Triple Threat (1962) Swamp Seed (1963) On the Trail (1964) Jam Gems: Live at the Left Bank (with Freddie Hubbard, 1965) The Gap Sealer (1972) Love and Understanding (1973) The Time and the Place (1974) Picture of Heath (1975) New Picture (1985) Peer Pleasure (1987) You've Changed (1991) Little Man Big Band (1992) You or Me (1995)
With Art Farmer	The Time and the Place: The Lost Concert (Mosaic, 1966) The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits (1967) The Time and the Place (Columbia, 1967) Homecoming (1971)
With Milt Jackson	Howard McGhee and Milt Jackson (1948) Statements (1961) Vibrations (1961) Big Bags (1962) Invitation (1962) Milt Jackson Quintet Live at the Village Gate (1963) Jazz 'n' Samba (1963) In a New Setting (1964) Ray Brown / Milt Jackson (1965) Born Free (1966) Olinga (1974)
With others	That's Right! (Nat Adderley, 1960) Up with Donald Byrd (1964) Regeneration (Stanley Cowell, 1975) Miles Davis Volume 2 (1953) Kenny Dorham Quintet (1953) Showboat (Kenny Dorham, 1960) Black Drops (Charles Earland, 1970) Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961) Smokin' (Curtis Fuller, 1972) The Quota (Red Garland, 1971) Kwanza (The First) (Albert Heath, 1973) Homecoming! (Elmo Hope, 1961) Hub Cap (Freddie Hubbard, 1961) Jay Hawk Talk (Carmell Jones, 1965) The Soul Society (Sam Jones, 1960) The Chant (Sam Jones, 1961) Down Home (Sam Jones, 1962) Latin Mann (Herbie Mann, 1965) Blue Soul (Blue Mitchell, 1959) A Sure Thing (Blue Mitchell, 1962) MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (1994) Keep Swingin' (Julian Priester, 1960) Soul Sauce (Cal Tjader, 1964) Music Inc. (Charles Tolliver, 1970) New York, New Sound (Gerald Wilson, 2003) Turned to Blue (Nancy Wilson, released 2006)