Eric Dolphy
Last Date (LP)
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
No obi.
And a fourth pressing of the record that refuses to stay in stock: Last Date, Hilversum 1964, on a Japanese Limelight edition. The session's aura is inseparable from its timing - the Berlin collapse less than a month away, the tape unaware - but strip the story completely and the music alone earns the immortality: Eric Dolphy at absolute peak fluency across alto, flute and bass clarinet, a European rhythm section playing over its head with visible joy, and a program - "Epistrophy", "Miss Ann", "Hypochristmutreefuzz" - that swings hard while glancing at the future Mengelberg and Bennink would go on to build. Four copies in this sale, four different editions, one shared truth: everyone who loves this music eventually needs this record, and most eventually want it twice.
The Japanese pressing ecosystem around Last Date is its own small study; this Limelight cut is a worthy chapter. Clean copy, gone soon, as always.
Release notes
'Eric Dolphy Quartet' (Artist on Labels) (c) 1965 Polygram Records, Inc. indicates 'Mono' on Labels, but Stereo Recording. Released with Innersleeve in Japanese. This is Dolphy's last recorded performance, played in Hilversum (NL), the 2nd of june, 1964.
| A1 | Epistrophy | 11:15 | |
| A2 | South Street Exit | 7:20 | |
| A3 | The Madrig Speaks, The Panther Walks | 4:50 | |
| B1 | Hypochristmutreefuzz | 5:25 | |
| B2 | You Don't Know What Love Is | 11:20 | |
| B3 | Miss Ann | 5:25 |
- Jacques Schols
- Bass
- Han Bennink
- Drums
- Eric Dolphy
- Flute, Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone
- Z. Jastrzebski
- Illustration
- Nat Hentoff
- Liner Notes
- Chuck Stewart
- Photography By
- Don Schlitten
- Photography By
- Misja Mengelberg
- Piano
