Eric Dolphy

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Eric Dolphy’s legacy is well represented by these performances from The Five Spot and the sessions supervised by Alan Douglas. They confirm him to be an artist who straddled the divide then so deep in jazz, drawing sustenance from the music’s past as he cleared a path to its future. Dolphy’s was a sensibility that could celebrate Fats Waller and honor Jomo Kenyatta, its inclusiveness rare in the polarized early 1960s. Fortunately, his example has not simply endured, but has become more resonant sixty years on.

PERSONNEL, DATES, TRACKS:

• [1-3] AT THE FIVE SPOT
• Eric Dolphy - (alto saxopohone & bass clarinet)
• Booker Little - (trumpet)
• Mal Waldron - (piano)
• Richard Davis - (double bass)
• Ed Blackwell - (drums)

• Recorded live at The Five Spot, July 16, 1961.

• 01 Fire Waltz
• 02 Bee Vamp
• 03 The Prophet
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• [4-7] IRON MAN
• Eric Dolphy - (alto saxophone, flute & bass clarinet)
• William “Prince” Lasha - (flute on track 5)
• Huey “Sonny” Simmons - (alto saxophone on track 5)
• Clifford Jordan - (tenor saxophone on track 5)
• Woody Shaw - (trumpet)
• Garvin Bushell - (bassoon on track 5)
• Bobby Hutcherson - (vibraphone)
• Richard Davis - (double bass on tracks 5 & 6)
• Eddie Kahn - (double bass on tracks 4,5 & 7)
• J..C. Moses - (drums)

• Recorded July 3, 1963, New York City

• 04 Iron Man
• 05 Burning Spear
• 06 Mandrake
• 07 Jitterbug Waltz