condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (light yellowing on back)

Insert and obi included.

August 1960: Eric Dolphy's second leader date, and one of his most quietly radical - Ron Carter on cello rather than bass, no piano anywhere, the chamber-jazz textures floating free of the usual anchors and the whole session breathing a strange weightless air that nothing else of its moment shares. The Prophet-inspired cover surrealism matches the music exactly: "Eclipse" - a Mingus composition, honoring the mentor - and the title track occupy a dream space between Third Stream, the workshop tradition and the coming freedom, with Dolphy's bass clarinet at its most speech-like and uncanny. This is the record that shows how much of his revolution was about color, texture and instrumentation, not just melodic line: he was recomposing the ensemble itself. A connoisseur's favorite that keeps rising in the general estimation, as it should.

Japanese Prestige mono pressing, silent surfaces for music built on air and shadow. Nobody's sophomore slump - a second masterpiece.