[SACD-R][OF] Eric Dolphy – Out There - 1960 (Jazz)

Eric Dolphy – Out There – New Jazz NJSA-8242-6 (2003)
Жанр: Free Jazz
Страна-производитель диска: USA
Год издания: 1960
Recorded : Engelwood Cliffs, NJ; August, 16, 1960
Издатель (лейбл): New Jazz
Номер по каталогу: NJSA-8252-6
Аудиокодек: DSD 2.0
Битрейт аудио: 1 bit / 2.8 MHz
Тип рипа: image (ISO)
Источник (релизер): ManWhoCan
Продолжительность: 33:58
Треклист:
1. Out There
2. Serene
3. The Baron
4. Eclipse
5. 17 West
6. Sketch Of Melba
7. Feathers
Доп. информация:
Eric Dolphy’s 2nd album as a leader was recorded in 1960, while he was still playing with Charlie Mingus, & just before his association with Ornette Coleman on the legendary Free Jazz sessions. Much was made at the time of Dolphy’s similarity to Ornette, but whereas Coleman’s interest was in throwing out the rulebook & dispensing with chordal progressions, Dolphy’s playing was still very much derived from bebop, though his distinctive approach pushed that envelope pretty hard.
On this session, he teamed up with drummer Roy Haynes, bassist George Duvivier & cellist Ron Carter. Carter’s cello lends the proceedings an intimate chamber jazz feel, & his arco double stops bridge the gap between chordal & melody instrument. The leader shows his prowess on clarinets & flute as well as alto & his choice of weapon unsurprisingly determines the character of each piece, though not in predictable ways; his flute solos (particularly on Randy Weston’s ballad “Sketch of Melba”) are every bit as muscular & colourful as those played on the other horns. The opening title track features tight ensemble work from Carter & Dolphy, leading into a typically pyrotechnic alto excursion from the leader. Here he settles on a series of phrases that are all slight variations on each other, like a Philip Glass arrangement of a Charlie Parker solo.
The other alto feature is “Feathers”, a mournful ballad which comes on like a cross between one of Mingus’s ballads & a Coleman dirge. Carter’s pizzicato chording shadows Dolphys’ statement of the melody before the leader lets rip with a solo crammed with trills, soulful cries & mercurial bop runs. Mingus’s “Eclipse” is in similar mode; Carter’s mournfully sour cello meshes with the leaders clarinet & Duvivier’s bowed bass, ending up with a wonderfully atmospheric coda. Haynes manages to propel without overpowering; on “17 West” he manages to power proceedings with just brushes & snare, erupting into a brief solo before the unexpected long fadeout.
Throughout, the instrumental combinations throw up beautiful clashes & consonances; much like Henry Threadgill’s work with cellos, tubas & so on. Theres a sense of a proper Third Stream being mined here, & it says much for Dolphy’s vision that such combinations are still the stuff of surprise 40 odd years later. While Out There is neither the compositional masterwork of Out to Lunch or the improvisational firestorm of the Five Spot sessions with Booker Little of the following year, its nevertheless a worthy record of one of the most innovative jazz musicians ever to have walked the planet.
Музыканты:
Alto Saxophone – Eric Dolphy
Bass – George Duvivier
Bass Clarinet – Eric Dolphy
Cello – Ron Carter
Clarinet – Eric Dolphy
Drums – Roy Haynes
Flute – Eric Dolphy