Eric Dolphy - At The Five Spot To Iron Man Revisited

2023

Eric Dolphy alto saxopohone & bass clarinet, Booker Little trumpet, Mal Waldron piano, Richard Davis double bass & Ed Blackwell drums.

Eric Dolphy  alto saxophone, flute & bass clarinet, William “Prince” Lasha  flute, Huey “Sonny” Simmons  alto saxophone, Clifford Jordan  tenor saxophone, Woody Shaw trumpet, Garvin Bushell bassoon,  Bobby Hutcherson  vibraphone, Richard Davis double bass, Eddie Kahn double bass & J..C. Moses drums.

Eric Dolphy’s legacy is well represented by these performances from The Five Spot and the sessions supervised by Alan Douglas. They confirm him to be an artist who straddled the divide then so deep in jazz, drawing sustenance from the music’s past as he cleared a path to its future. Dolphy’s was a sensibility that could celebrate Fats Waller and honor Jomo Kenyatta, its inclusiveness rare in the polarized early
1960s. Fortunately, his example has not simply endured, but has become more resonant sixty years on. –Bill Shoemaker