Eric Dolphy

Featuring: Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Jacques Schols

condition (record/cover): NM / EX

Insert and obi included.

Hilversum, June 2, 1964: Eric Dolphy with the young Dutch trio of Misha Mengelberg, Jacques Schols and Han Bennink, twenty-seven days before his death in Berlin. The music is anything but elegiac - "Epistrophy" dances with Monkish glee, Mengelberg needles and sparks like the born contrarian he was, Bennink already swings like a force of nature barely contained by the radio studio - and Dolphy responds to the young Europeans' energy with playing of complete joy and command, three instruments' worth of farewell nobody knew was one. And then the closing spoken words arrive, preserved by accident and immortal ever since: "When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again." Except here, once, it was captured.

One of the most treasured live albums in all of jazz, for every reason - musical, historical, human. Japanese Limelight pressing, quiet and true, worthy of the weight.