At the Five Spot

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At the Five Spot
At the Five Spot cover
Studio album by Eric Dolphy
Released 16 July 1961
Recorded Various times
Genre Avant-garde jazz
Post-bop
Label New Jazz / OJC
Producer Esmond Edwards
Professional reviews
Eric Dolphy chronology
Far Cry
(1961)
At the Five Spot
(1961)
Memorial Album
(1961)
Volume two cover
Volume two cover

At the Five Spot volumes one and two is a pair of jazz albums documenting one night (16 July 1961) from the end of Eric Dolphy's two-week residency at the Five Spot in New York. This was the only night to be recorded; the engineer was Rudy Van Gelder. A third volume from this session was released, called Memorial Album, and some other stray tracks (including a solo Dolphy rendition of "God Bless the Child") were later released on compilations. Dolphy and trumpeter Booker Little were backed by a rhythm section consisting of pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Ed Blackwell.

Dolphy's composition "The Prophet" is a tribute to the artist Richard Jennings, who had designed the covers of Dolphy's earlier albums, Outward Bound and Out There.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Volume one

  1. "Fire Waltz" (Waldron) –13:44
  2. "Bee Vamp" (Little) –12:30
  3. "The Prophet" (Dolphy) –21:22
  4. "Bee Vamp" (alternative take) –9:27
(Track 4 not on original LP.)

[edit] Volume two

  1. "Aggression" (Little) –17:21
  2. "Like Someone in Love" (Burke–van Heusen) –19:58

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Sources

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 6th edition. ISBN 0-14-051521-6