Eric Dolphy, Ron CarterFeaturing: Mal Waldron
Where? (LP)
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condition (record/cover): VG+ (one mark producing clicks for a few seconds) / EX+
June 1961: Eric Dolphy and Ron Carter co-billed, with Carter's cello again changing the room's whole geometry - plus Mal Waldron and a rhythm team navigating textures nobody had quite attempted before. Where? extends the chamber experiments of Out There into new corners: "Bass Duet" puts two low strings in open conversation, an idea decades ahead of its moment, and Dolphy's clarinet work here - the straight clarinet, his least documented voice - is among his most exposed and beautiful on record, reason alone for the session's cult standing. The Prestige dates of 1960-61 were a laboratory disguised as a contract obligation, and this is one of the laboratory's most interesting experiments: a record whose instrumental combinations still sound like almost nobody has tried them since, because almost nobody has.
US Prestige pressing of a genuine connoisseur's favorite - the kind of session that deepens the more of the surrounding discography you know.
Release notes
Recorded June 20, 1961. This album was formerly catalogued as Prestige/New Jazz 8265. Originally issued under Ron Carter's name. Lime green Fantasy labels.
| A1 | Rally | 5:40 | |
| A2 | Bass Duet | 5:40 | |
| A3 | Softly As In A Morning Sunrise | 7:40 | |
| B1 | Where? | 7:30 | |
| B2 | Yes Indeed | 5:47 | |
| B3 | Saucer Eyes | 5:06 |
- Eric Dolphy
- Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Flute
- George Duvivier
- Bass (A1, A2, B1, B2)
- Ron Carter
- Bass, Cello
- Charlie Persip
- Drums
- Brian Gardner
- Lacquer Cut By [Runout Etching ⁀⁀ ⁀⁀]
- Doug Ramsey
- Liner Notes [January, 1971]
- Mal Waldron
- Piano
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Recorded By
- Esmond Edwards
- Supervised By
