Eric Dolphy - On Prestige '2024

Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. Eric Dolphy Quintet – Les (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) (05:11)
2. Eric Dolphy Quintet – On Green Dolphin Street (05:43)
3. Out There (06:52)
4. Fire Waltz (Live) (13:44)
5. Booker Little – Miss Ann (04:19)
6. God Bless The Child (Live At Studenterforeningen, Copenhagen, DK / September
8, 1961) (07:08)
7. Eric Dolphy Quintet – G.W. (07:57)
8. Sketch Of Melba (04:36)
9. Oliver Nelson – Images (05:44)
10. Aggression (feat. Booker Little, Mal Waldron, Richard Davis & Ed Blackwell)
(17:21)
11. Serene (06:58)
12. Oleo (Live) (07:35)
13. Booker Little – Tenderly (04:18)
14. Eric Dolphy Quintet – 245 (Instrumental) (06:48)
15. Booker Little – Status Seeking (Live) (13:21)
16. Ron Carter & Mal Waldron – Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (07:36)
17. Booker Little – Left Alone (06:39)
18. Bee Vamp (Live) (12:27)
19. Feathers (05:00)
20. Like Someone In Love (feat. Booker Little, Mal Waldron, Richard Davis & Ed
Blackwell) (19:56)
21. Laura (13:44)
22. Woody'n You (Live) (10:24)
23. Number Eight (Potsa Lotsa) [Live] (16:31)
24. Don't Blame Me (11:14)
25. Eric Dolphy Quintet – Miss Toni (Instrumental) (05:38)


 moreDolphy was born in Los Angeles in 1928. He became interested in music
early in life, starting out on clarinet and receiving a scholarship to study the
instrument at the University of Southern California School of Music while he was
just barely into his teens. At this point he had taken up oboe and saxophone as
well, and his love of classical music had him working toward a future as a
symphonic musician. His earliest recordings were made in 1949 when he played
flute, clarinet, and alto and baritone sax on various sessions with drummer Roy
Porter. After several years in the army, Dolphy returned to Los Angeles in 1953,
where he played music in various incarnations throughout the rest of the '50s.
His first big break came in 1958 when he joined Chico Hamilton's band. After a
year of heavy touring, Dolphy left California for New York City, where he joined
Charles Mingus' band and began accelerating the development of his distinctively
curious and multifaceted instrumental voice. Dolphy quickly integrated into the
New York scene, playing on multiple important records and live dates with
Mingus, but also contributing to landmark albums from Oliver Nelson, Ron Carter,
Gunther Schuller, Booker Little, and many more, all between 1960 and 1961.
Dolphy played bass clarinet on the collective improvisation that became Ornette
Coleman's 1961 album Free Jazz, giving a title to the burgeoning movement. In
1961 he officially joined John Coltrane's band after sitting in on many
occasions, contributing to albums like Africa/Brass and Live! At the Village
Vanguard, and playing a major influential role in Coltrane's shift from hard bop
to more unrestricted sounds.

Dolphy also came into his own as a leader during this time, recording a series
of albums for the Prestige label beginning with formative sets such as 1960's
Outward Bound and 1961's Out There. On these albums and others where he acted as
a leader, Dolphy's innovations were at the fore. In addition to an uncommon
fluidity between his various instruments and a playing style that was at times
jarringly un-musical for its time, Dolphy was also one of the first to record
unaccompanied horn solos on record, pre-dating other notable examples of this by
several years. The love of classical music that had inspired him early on showed
up as an influence on his compositions as well, setting him even further apart
from his more traditionalist contemporaries.

After playing with Coltrane for several years, Dolphy returned to working with
Mingus, playing on 1963's Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus and joining the
band on tour in 1964. The same year, he signed on with Blue Note and recorded
his masterwork Out to Lunch! After the completion of a European tour with Mingus
in early 1964, Dolphy opted not to return to the United States, hoping to find a
better reception for his music, which was often rejected or misunderstood by
American audiences. While getting his bearings in Europe, he recorded, wrote,
and also performed occasional gigs with friends from the states who were passing
through like Donald Byrd. He made plans to join Albert Ayler's band, and to
start work with Cecil Taylor and others. In June of 1964, however, Dolphy became
severely ill while performing in Berlin. He was hospitalized after collapsing
on-stage. Reports vary, but one account posits that when he was admitted to the
hospital, doctors assumed Dolphy was suffering a drug overdose, going on the
stereotype of the time that jazz musicians were largely addicts. Because of
this, he was treated for an overdose and left to ride the experience out. Not
only was Dolphy not a drinker, smoker, or drug user of any kind, but he was also
diabetic, and he died in the hospital on June 29, 1964, after slipping into a
diabetic coma, a potentially avoidable fate brought on by neglect and prejudice.

Dolphy's legacy consistently echoed throughout jazz and other circles of music
long after his death. Sessions he recorded during his lifetime were released
posthumously, as were a wealth of archival recordings. Peers like Coltrane, Joe
Henderson, Tony Williams, and many others all leaned into progressively further
out playing styles pioneered by Dolphy, and subsequent generations of
avant-gardists like the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Anthony Braxton used
Dolphy's influence as a jumping off point for exploration of their own. Even
experimental rock musicians like Frank Zappa found inspiration in Dolphy's
innovative body of work, translating his irrepressible style into non-jazz
idioms. It's impossible to know what Dolphy would have accomplished had he lived
into his forties, but what he did leave behind, in just a sort time, comprises
multiple lifetimes' worth of monumental creation.

Biography by Fred Thomas



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