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.