Eric Dolphy with Booker Little - Far Cry (1984 Japanese New Jazz Stereo LP)

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Eric Dolphy with Booker Little - Far Cry | Vinyl LP - 1984 Japanese New Jazz Stereo Reissue (VIJ-228, Prestige Jazz Golden 50 No. 28, 180g, Victor Musical Industries, Inc.)

Eric Dolphy recorded this album on December 21, 1960. The same day, across town at Atlantic Recording Studios, he played bass clarinet on Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz. The day before, he had been on the Jazz Abstractions session with Gunther Schuller and Jim Hall. Three recordings in two days, each representing a different face of what the avant-garde could be in December 1960.

This was Dolphy and Booker Little's first studio meeting. They would play together at the Five Spot Café in July 1961, producing live recordings that many regard as the high point of both their careers. Little died three months after those Five Spot dates, on October 5, 1961.

Jaki Byard wrote two of the three pieces on the Charlie Parker tribute that fills Side A. "Mrs. Parker of K.C." is dedicated to Addie Parker, Charlie Parker's mother. "Ode to Charlie Parker" follows. Dolphy's own "Far Cry" completes the suite, his alto playing hard and angular above Byard's percussive piano, Carter's walking bass and Haynes's cymbal work. Side B opens with "Miss Ann," named for Dolphy's mother, a piece he recorded multiple times across his career. "Left Alone" is Mal Waldron and Billie Holiday's collaboration from 1957. "Tenderly" is the Walter Gross and Jack Lawrence standard. "It's Magic" is Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne's 1948 piece from the film Romance on the High Seas.

This is the 1984 Japanese New Jazz 180g stereo reissue (VIJ-228), Prestige Jazz Golden 50 No. 28, manufactured by Victor Musical Industries, Inc.