Eric Dolphy, Misha Mengelberg, Jacques Schols, Han Bennink

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

More from the final Dutch days, June 1964: Eric Dolphy with Misha Mengelberg, Jacques Schols and Han Bennink, in material beyond the Last Date session, released on ICP - the Instant Composers Pool, the label Mengelberg and Bennink themselves built as the house organ of Dutch improvised music. That provenance gives this document a beautiful circularity: the European improvising tradition honoring the visitor who helped ignite it, on its own self-determined imprint, decades into the revolution his visit helped authorize. The Monk title tune suits everyone involved perfectly - Mengelberg the great Monk interpreter in embryo, already needling the changes with proprietary wit; Dolphy the great Monk extrapolator at absolute peak, days from the end nobody saw coming.

A precious supplement to the last chapter, catnip for both Dolphy completists and ICP catalog collectors, and an object of real historical weight from two traditions at their meeting point. Dutch pressing, hunted steadily, here now.