Editing Booker Little (section)

===1959-1960: Freelancing===
During his leave, Little freelanced around New York developing new acquaintances with musicians such as [[John Coltrane]], [[Slide Hampton]], and [[Teddy Charles]].<ref name=":1" /> He was present on two of the four tracks of a reunion album with his old friends Coleman, Strozier, Smith, Phineas Newborn Jr., Calvin Newborn, George Joyner, and Charles Crosby titled ''Down Home Reunion'', credited as by Young Men From Memphis, where the group displayed their interests in blues music.<ref name=":0" /> Through the course of the end of 1959 and early 1960, Little featured and worked on albums such as ''Slide!'', ''Bill Henderson Sings,'' and the last album he recorded before returning to Roach's group, ''[[Fantastic Frank Strozier]]''.<ref name=":1" /> In addition, he also recorded his second album as a lead simply titled ''[[Booker Little (album)|Booker Little]]'' for [[Bob Shad]]'s Time label where he introduced his original compositions such as '"Opening Statement", "Minor Sweet", "Bee Tee's minor Plea", "Life's a Little Blue" and "The Grand Valse".<ref name=":0" />