Eric Dolphy

Eric Dolphy was among the most daring, impassioned and technically assured improvisers to come of age in the 1960s.

This release presents the two albums made by the great Eric Dolphy with Latin Jazz groups in their entirety. Although both albums were supposedly by the “Latin Jazz Quintet”, the only constant in personnel is the presence of Dolphy, who plays alternatively on alto sax, flute and bass clarinet.

Eric Dolphy’s complete original album Out There (New Jazz NJLP8252), his second LP as a leader after Outward Bound.

The instrumentation featured here is unusual, with Dolphy playing in a quartet format with Ron Carter on cello, George Duvivier on bass, and Roy Haynes on drums.

The complete original album Far Cry (Prestige/New Jazz 8270), featuring Eric Dolphy in a quintet format with another star who passed away before his time, trumpeter Booker Little.