A1  - Earth Birth
A2 - Little Susan
A3 - Nice Ice
A4 - Little Niles
B1 - Pam's Waltz
B2 - Babe's Blues
B3 - Let's Climb A Hill

Recorded in October 1958 at RCA Studios in New York City

The music on Little Niles is rooted in hard bop, with a dose of the African and Caribbean rhythms that Weston liked to bring to his recordings (although those aspects are not nearly as pronounced as they would become on his later works). Every track on the album was composed by Weston, which let's him show off some different stylings, not in a way to intimidate the listener, but rather presenting a warm and diverse palette of sounds and stylings. The music on the album, as Langston Hughes says in the liner notes, was inspired by Weston's two young children Niles and Pamela, expressing musically the ways that they see and feel about the world around them. Liston's arrangements and the musicians deft touch on their instruments help bring Weston's musical vision to life.

Johnny Griffin shows why he is in the discussion for the short list of legendary tenor players: he brings his distinct emotional sound (in this setting a little more gentle than normal as he rests his legendary speedy chops - he was once known as the "fastest tenor in the west") to put down some sensitive and delicate (but no less complex) solos. By 1958 Griffin had already recorded three classic albums for Blue Note (Introducing Johnny Griffin, A Blowin' Session and The Congregation) and earlier in the summer had replaced Coltrane in Thelonious Monk's group and recorded the two classic live albums Misterioso and Thelonious In Action. The fact that he chose to record with Weston is an indication of how respected the pianist must have been, Griffin certainly had his pick who he decided to step into the studio with.

The "golden age" of recordings was from 1955 to 1965, at the beginning of the LP and the stereo era, where pure vacuum tube amplification helped produce recordings demonstrating unparalleled fidelity and warmth, lifelike presence and illumination.

This Pure Pleasure LP was remastered by some of the best engineers in the world, using pure analogue components only, from the original analogue studio tapes through to the cutting head and was pressed at Pallas, Germany.