Eric Dolphy Time

'Out to Lunch' stands as Eric Dolphy's magnum opus, an absolute pinnacle of avant-garde jazz in any form or era.

Eric Dolphy - Iron Man (1963) {Restless-Metrotone 7 72659-2 rel 1992}
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© 1963, 1992 Restless / Metrotone Records | 7 72659-2
Jazz / Post Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz / Saxophone / Clarinet

The companion piece to Conversations (recorded at the same mid-1963 sessions with producer Alan Douglas), Iron Man is every bit as essential and strikes a more consistent ambience than its widely varied twin. It also more clearly anticipates the detailed, abstract sound paintings of Dolphy's masterwork Out to Lunch, in large part because this time around the program is weighted toward Dolphy originals. "Iron Man," "Burning Spear," and the shorter "Mandrake" all have pretty outside themes, full of Dolphy's trademark wide interval leaps and playful sense of dissonance.

The Chico Hamilton Quintet - Gongs East! (1958) {2013 Japan Jazz Best Collection 1000 Series 24bit Remaster} (ft. Eric Dolphy)
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© 1958, 2013 Warner Bros. / Warner Japan / WEA / Rhino | WPCR-27232 | Jazz Best Collection 1000 Series
Jazz / Cool / West Coast Jazz / Bop / Drums / Saxophone / Clarinet

Features 24 bit remastering and comes with a mini-description. Quite possibly the best album to feature the talents of Chico Hamilton and Eric Dolphy – a set recorded at a time when Dolphy was an up-and-coming player on the west coast scene! Although Chico Hamilton had recorded with unusual reed players before, Dolphy brings a depth of soul and spirit to this album that's missing from a lot of Chico's earlier work at the time – a style that still holds onto some of the measured qualities of the Pacific Jazz work by the Hamilton group, yet which also opens up into some of the darker corners that Dolphy would explore more on his own recordings of the 60s.

Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch! (1964) {1996 Toshiba-EMI Japan, TOCJ-4163}
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© 1996 Blue Note Japan / Toshiba-EMI | TOCJ-4163
Jazz / Post Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz

Out to Lunch stands as Eric Dolphy's magnum opus, an absolute pinnacle of avant-garde jazz in any form or era. Its rhythmic complexity was perhaps unrivaled since Dave Brubeck's Time Out, and its five Dolphy originals – the jarring Monk tribute "Hat and Beard," the aptly titled "Something Sweet, Something Tender," the weirdly jaunty flute showcase "Gazzelloni," the militaristic title track, the drunken lurch of "Straight Up and Down" – were a perfect balance of structured frameworks, carefully calibrated timbres, and generous individual freedom. Much has been written about Dolphy's odd time signatures, wide-interval leaps, and flirtations with atonality.