Eric Dolphy 2016

The complete long unavailable concert by Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy at the Salle Wagram, in Paris, for the first time ever on a single collection. As a bonus, we have added the two complete sets by the Chico Hamilton Quintet with Dolphy at Newport '58, including an extended previously unissued version of "Pottsville U.S.A." on which Dolphy plays a long solo on alto sax.

Resonance Records is proud to announce the first official previously-unissued studio recordings of Eric Dolphy in over 30 years, including 85-minutes of never before released material. Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions is being released in partnership with the Eric Dolphy Trust and the Alan Douglas Estate with remastered high-resolution monoaural audio transferred directly from the original tapes.

Just a few weeks before his death, Eric Dolphy performed a concert at the Le Chat Qui Péche club in Paris on June 11, 1964, broadcast on French radio station France Musique, with a septet including fellow jazz luminary Donald Byrd on trumpet. The six tracks on this disc include selections from his albums Outward Bound (1960), Out There (1961), and Far Cry (1962), as well as a version of John Coltrane's "Naima". Personnel: Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone, bass, clarinet, flute; Donald Byrd - trumpet; Nathan Davis - tenor saxophone; Jack Diéval - piano; Jacques Hess - bass; Franco Manzecchi - drums; Jacky Bambou - congas. The entire broadcast is presented here, digitally remastered, with background liners.

In August of 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Eighty minutes of never-before-heard music from this group were recently discovered at the New York Public Library. In addition to some well-known Coltrane material ("Impressions"), there is a breathtaking feature for Dolphy's bass clarinet on "When Lights Are Low" and the only known non-studio recording of Coltrane's composition "Africa", from the Africa/Brass album.

Eric Dolphy - Last Recordings (1964) {West Wind 2016 rel 1988}
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© 1964, 1988 West Wind / ITM Records | 2016
Jazz / Post Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz / Saxophone / Clarinet

Consider this: these performances date from the early June of 1964. By the end of the month Eric Dolphy was lying dead in a hospital bed in Berlin in very controversial circumstances, the widespread theory being that he was administered the wrong treatment because it was assumed that, as an African-American jazz musician, he was a junkie. As soul-destroying as that may be, it is nonetheless spirit raising to hear music of such beauty and vitality from a man who was so close to death.

John Coltrane - European Tour 1961 (2017) {7CD Box Set, Le Chant Du Monde 5742745.51} (featuring Eric Dolphy)
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© 1961, 2017 Le Chant Du Monde | 574 2745.51
Jazz / Hard Bop / Modal Music / Saxophone

To mark the 50th anniversary of John Coltrane’s passing on 17 July 1967, a box set of the 1961 European Tour by French label Le Chant du Mont has been released. This is the first time the material has been available, other than as a bootleg copy, and serves as a historical record even if the audio quality is not perfect.

Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960) {Prestige New Jazz Japan VICJ-23635 rel 1991}
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© 1960, 1991 Prestige New Jazz / Victor Japan | VICJ-23635
Jazz / Post Bop / Third Stream / Saxophone / Flute

Eric Dolphy's second album as a leader – and already a bold step forward from the first! The format here changes from the more standard lineup of before – as Dolphy drops out other horn players, loses the piano, and brings the cello of Ron Carter into the frontline! Backing is by the bass of George Duvivier and the drums of Roy Haynes – and the mix of cello and bass creates the freely spirited sound that allows Dolphy to take off on even freer solo flights. The session has a very moody, very dark feel – especially on the tracks where Dolphy is playing B flat and bass clarinet.