Eric Dolphy Far Cry With Booker Little

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180g Vinyl LP!
Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes by Kevin Gray!
Pressed at QRP!
Part of the ultimate audiophile Prestige stereo reissues from Analogue Productions — 25 of the most collectible, rarest, most audiophile-sounding Rudy Van Gelder recordings ever made.
A half-century after his death at 36, the astonishing saxophonist and flutist Eric Dolphy is still influencing and inspiring the most adventuresome jazz musicians. Dolphy was daring and iconoclastic while fully immersed in the jazz tradition. His musicianship was so thorough that innovators like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane held him in awe.
In a dream partnership, Dolphy and trumpeter Booker Little made a handful of recordings in 1960 and '61, shortly before Little's own premature death. The first of them are in this album. With Jaki Byard, Ron Carter and Roy Haynes.
Together with the innovative trumpeter Booker Little, Eric Dolphy recorded several wonderful pieces shortly before Little's untimely death in 1961, four of which can be heard on "Far Cry". The third album of the multi-talented Dolphy, who is considered a pioneer of free jazz and was admired by greats such as John Coltrane, inspires with his thirst for adventure.
Creative, groundbreaking, but still based on the jazz tradition, titles such as "Mrs. Parker of K.C. (Bird's Mother)" and "Ode To Charlie Parker" clearly show Charlie Parker's great intellectual influence on the work on this album. Dolphy and Little are accompanied by Jaki Byard on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Roy Haynes on drums.
The 180-gram LP at 33 rpm is part of Analogue Productions' prestige stereo re-releases, which includes 25 rare and collectible recordings by sound engineer legend Rudy Van Gelder. Remastered by Kevin Gray.
On this session Dolphy is joined by two like-minded weirdos in Little and Byard, as well as an able rhythm section in Carter and Haynes... Everything that we've come to love about Dolphy is on display here, from the unorthodox instruments to the stuttering, belligerent solos that seem to go from New York to LA by way of Saturn... Like Dolphy, Little was another prodigy who died early in his career; his smoothly wandering lines provide a sharp contrast to Dolphy's prickly approach. Byard, of course, has an affection for all styles of piano playing and often welds them into the same passage, a technique he would really perfect in the company of Roland Kirk. At the time, this was forward thinking music that even today has a whiff of the avant-garde. - David Rickert, All About Jazz, November 2002

Features:

• 180g Vinyl
• 33rpm
• Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes by Kevin Gray
• Plated by Gary Salstrom
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Tip-On Jacket with Thick Cardboard Stock

Musicians:

• Eric Dolphy, alto sax, bass clarinet, flute
• Booker Little, trumpet
• Jaki Byard, piano
• Ron Carter, bass
• Roy Haynes, drums

Selections:

Side A
1. Mrs. Parker of K. C. (Bird's Mother)
2. Ode to Charlie Parker
3. Far Cry
Side B
1. Miss Ann
2. Left Alone
3. Tenderly
4. It's Magic