Description
This is our all-time best seller. Selected ‘Jazz Album of the Week’ in the New York Times and on numerous ‘Best Recordings of the Year’ lists upon its original release, these live recordings from Carnegie Hall and Syracuse, New York, are now remastered and repackaged and include additional, previously unreleased Dolphy performances of Gunther Schuller’s Third Stream masterpiece Variants on a Theme by Monk.
An incredible sampling of Dolphy’s artistry from ’62 to ’63, in action with his own quartet, in contemporary chamber music settings created for him by Schuller and in the heat of an all-star jam session on “Donna Lee”… Dolphy was never more brilliant.
PERFORMERS
Eric Dolphy, alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet; Edward Armour, trumpet; Richard Davis, bass; J C Moses, drums; Jim Hall, Barry Galbraith, guitar; Benny Golson, tenor saxophone; Phil Woods, alto saxophone; Don Ellis, Nick Travis, trumpet; Jimmy Knepper, trombone; Lalo Schifrin, Eddie Costa, piano; Warren Chiasson, Eddie Costa, vibraphone; Chuck Israels, Art Davis, Barre Phillips, bass; “Sticks” Evans, Charlie Persip, drums; John Oberbrunner,flute; Gloria Agostini, harp; Louis Krasner, Adrienne Galimer, Matthew Raimondi, Lewis Kaplan, violin; Joan Mulfinger, Samuel Rhodes, viola; George Mulfinger Jr, Michael Rudiakov, cello
Gunther Schuller, conductor*
PROGRAM
1. “Half Note Triplets” (Eric Dolphy) 8:55
2. “Ode to Charlie Parker” (Jaki Byard) 8:23
3. “Iron Man” (Dolphy) 6:35
4. “Densities” (Gunther Schuller) 4:58
5. “Night Music” (Schuller)* 3:55
Gunther Schuller: Variants on a Theme by Thelonious Monk*
6. Intro & Theme 1:15
7. Variant I 5:33
8. Variant II 2:06
9. Variant III 5:21
10. Variant IV 2:37
11. “Abstraction” (Gunther Schuller) 4:58
12. “Donna Lee” (Charlie Parker) 13:03
Recorded 14 March 1963 (#4, 11) at Carnegie Hall in New York City, New York; 10 March 1962 (#5, 6-10) at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York; and 18 April 1963 (#1-3, 12) at Carnegie Hall in New York City, New York.
Produced by Gunther Schuller
ALSO AVAILABLE
for downloads and streaming on Apple Music as well as other digital sites.
