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Released
  
1992

Little Man, Big Band (1992)
  
You or Me (1995)

Release date
  
1992

Label
  
Verve Records

Length
  
51:56

Artist
  
Jimmy Heath

Producer
  
Bill Cosby

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
January 30 & 31 and March 3, 1992 BMG Studios, New York City

Jimmy Heath albums
  
You or Me, You've Changed, Love and Understanding, New Picture, Peer Pleasure

Little Man, Big Band is an album by saxophonist Jimmy Heath featuring performances recorded in 1992 and released on the Verve label.

Contents

Reception

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".

Track listing

All compositions by Jimmy Heath except as indicated

  1. "Trane Connections" - 5:04
  2. "Two Friends" (Bill Cosby, Stu Gardner) - 4:24
  3. "The Voice of the Saxophone" - 7:46
  4. "Forever Sunday" - 6:56
  5. "C.T.A." - 7:01
  6. "Ellington's Stray Horn" - 7:18
  7. "Gingerbread Boy" - 5:06
  8. "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

    • Songs

    1Trane Connections5:07
    2Two Friends4:26
    3The Voice of the Saxophone (From the Afro-American Suite of Evolution)7:48

    References

    Little Man, Big Band Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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