ERIC DOLPHY ? OUT TO LUNCH ? EX/NM 66 Blue Note NY VAN GELDER HUBBARD HUTCHERSON

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Original second press, looks exactly like the first press with VAN GELDER stamps and New York USA labels, the only difference is lack of 'ear.' February 1964 was a particularly volatile month in U.S. as well as jazz history. There were boycotts against the public schools in New York City, the release of the accused murderer of Medgar Evers after a mistrial in the corrupt Southern judicial system, and the Beatles made their US debut on the Ed Sullivan show. Dolphy had returned to the Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop after several months of free-lancing, and the two men were expanding the horizons of their free musical conversations. And within the same week, Art Blakey (with Freddie Hubbard) recorded the explosive album Free For All and Miles Davis (with Tony Williams) performed a classic concert at Philharmonic Hall which yielded the albums Four And More and My Funny Valentine. Bobby Hutcherson and Richard Davis had just recorded the turbulent Blue Note album Judgment with leader/pianist Andrew Hill and drummer Elvin Jones. So when Dolphy, Hubbard, Hutcherson, Davis and Williams assembled at the Van Gelder Studios on February 25, the air was ripe for new approaches to jazz and improvisation. Out To Lunch was revolutionary on nearly every front. In addition to dispelling the notion that improvised solos should maintain the mood of the melody, Dolphy called for his sidemen to rethink their preconceived notions about improvisation. Dolphy developed highly individualistic sounds on bass clarinet, alto sax and flute, and his wildly imaginative improvisations expanded the harmonic scope of the music. Hubbard’s solos on Free For All had pushed the boundaries of standard bop harmony, but they were still tonally based; on Out To Lunch, he organized his solos in a completely different manner, manipulating motivic cells to build his statements. The rhythm section sounds entirely different than any other rhythm section of its time. Not only are they free from keeping time, the pulse is allowed to fluctuate as the pieces evolve (this concept was also present on Hill’s Judgment). Indeed, all three of these musicians are commentators, not timekeepers. At times, Hutcherson plunks out a single note behind a soloist, and Williams’ rapport with the group is much more free-flowing than it was with Miles Davis at the time. Richard Davis also had considerable freedom in his role: on the title track, the bass part had no time signature at all, and that allowed Davis to lead and follow the group in any meter. By 1964, Dolphy was still a controversial player, but few musicians doubted his extraordinary gifts as an instrumentalist. Out To Lunch showed that Dolphy was also a fine composer and bandleader, with daring ideas of how music could be played and presented. Sadly, he had little opportunity to further develop these ideas. He traveled to Europe with Mingus in the spring of 1964, producing several recordings, but few under his own name. He remained in Europe after the tour in search of greater performing opportunities, but while in Germany, he went into a diabetic coma and died on 28 June 28 1964. Isolated elements of the concepts from Out To Lunch appeared on other Blue Note albums and in the mid-60s Miles Davis Quintet, but as a whole, this bold musical experiment seems to have gone undeveloped in the past 52 years.


Artist: ERIC DOLPHY

Year: 1966

Label: Blue Note

Catalog Number: 84163

Mono/Stereo/Quadro: stereo

Country: USA

Weight: 144 grams

Cover Format: thick standard. wraparound front slick with paste-on rear panel

Cover Condition: VG- (sharp, crisp, vivid & tight, some water damage across lower opening corner otherwise stunning NM if not for name on rear)

Vinyl Condition: EX/

Label Condition: pristine

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 VG+ : Plays perfectly nearly all of the time, with only a few minor distractions.

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