I have recently acquired a large jazz record collection consisting of many rare, unusual, and hard-to-find items.  I will be listing them on ebay over the next several months.  All items will be listed at a reasonable starting price with no reserve.  All items will be shipped in secure new LP mailers, with the vinyl outside the cover to prevent seam splits.  I will gladly combine shipping for all auctions ending within one week.  All records are graded visually unless otherwise noted.  I try to grade conservatively, using Goldmine guidelines, in order to give the buyer the benefit of any doubt *(please see below).  I try to list all significant defects.  All photos are of actual item taken at time of listing.  Please email me with any questions.  Up for auction is:

ERIC DOLPHY QUINTET

"Outward Bound"

Featuring Freddie Hubbard

New Jazz NJLP 8236

• First Pressing
• Dolphy's First LP as a Leader and His Most Collectible LP!
• Silver Print on Deep Groove Purple Labels
• Recording: Rudy Van Gelder
• "RVG" Stamped in Dead Wax Both Sides
• Unusual, Futuristic Cover Art
• Prestige Records Inc., 203 So. Washington Ave., Bergenfield, N.J. Address on Back
• Original Rice Paper Inner Sleeve
• Outstanding Condition!
• Original First Pressings Rarely Offered on ebay!
• Don't Miss This Opportunity!

1960

[Note: For further information on Dolphy, see biographical sketch below]

Personnel:

• Eric Dolphy -- Alto Sax, Bass-Clarinet, & Flute
• Freddie Hubbard -- Trumpet
• Jackie Byard -- Piano
• George Tucker -- Bass
• Roy haynes -- Drums

Tracks (Side 1):

1. G.W.
2. Green Dolphin Street
3. Les

Tracks (Side 2):

1. "245"
2. Glad to be Unhappy
3. Miss Toni

Cover: E

Glossy; clean; great graphics; strong spine and seams; very minor corner wear; three tiny red marks lower right (barely visible); very light soiling on back; overall outstanding!

Vinyl: E

Glossy; clean; extremely light scuffs; plays great!

Clean; very minor spindle wear and marks; nice!

Shipping and Handling

US Postal Service Media Mail: $5.00 (each additional LP add $2.00)

US Postal Service Priority Mail: $8.00 (each additional LP add $3.00)

[Shipping insurance optional --contact me for rates]

Canada: $8.00 (Airmail); each additional LP add $3.00

Europe: $14.00 (Airmail); each additional LP add $6.00

Japan, Asia, Australia: $15.00 (Airmail); each additional LP add $7.00

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* A further note about my grading:  I rarely grade a previously owned record NM.  I do not use this grade unless the record is virtually flawless.  After NM, my highest grade is E, followed by VG+.  I do not use NM-, E-, VG++, or VG+++ or other so-called in-between grades.  VG+ should be very acceptable to most collectors.  I will only list a VG record if it is extremely rare and hard-to-find.

Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed.  I am a collector first, and make every effort to grade my records fairly and accurately.  Sometimes honest differences of opinion may arise.  If for any reason you are not satisfied with your purchase, please contact me before leaving negative feedback.  I will gladly refund your entire purchase price, including shipping, or make some other mutually satisfactory arrangement.  To activate this guarantee, you must notify me within one week of receipt of record and return the record to me in the same condition as received within two weeks.  Thanks.

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Eric Dolphy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eric Allan Dolphy (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was a jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet.

Dolphy was the first important bass clarinet soloist in jazz, and one of the first viable flute soloists in jazz.  On early recordings, he occasionally played traditional B-flat soprano clarinet.  His unique and individual style utilised wide intervals, speechlike effects and exotic scales.

Classical music played a large role in Dolphy's early training and remained important to him.  Dolphy performed and recorded Edgard Varese's Density 21.5 for solo flute as well as other classical works, and participated heavily in Third Stream efforts.  Dolphy's work is sometimes classified as free jazz, though he insisted that his compositions and solos were grounded in a thorough, if occasionally unorthodox, use of harmony.

Life and Career

Dolphy was born in Los Angeles in California and performed locally for several years. He was educated at Los Angeles City College.  It is believed that he first recorded as a member of a large group led by bebop drummer Roy Porter in 1949. Dolphy had the benefit of a music room built as an extension to his parents' home, and it was here that he met and rehearsed with Clifford Brown, Max Roach and other well-known musicians when they were working on the American west coast.

Dolphy came to wider prominence in drummer Chico Hamilton's quintet in 1958, and had a particularly fruitful relationship with bassist Charles Mingus, which began in 1959 and continued intermittently until Mingus's European tour of 1964.

Dolphy recorded or played with such important jazz musicians as John Coltrane, Oliver Nelson, Ornette Coleman, Freddie Hubbard, Andrew Hill, George Russell, Bobby Hutcherson and Tony Williams.  Dolphy had a unique capacity to make his instruments "speak."   Charles Mingus considered Dolphy his most talented interpreter.

His residency alongside Coltrane at the Village Vanguard in late November 1961 is now legendary, but it provoked jazz conservatives to brand Coltrane and Dolphy's work as 'anti-Jazz' in an article in Downbeat magazine, despite or because of its apparent innovation.  This upset Dolphy, and his colleague Coltrane wrote a response to the magazine.  

Dolphy's recording career as a leader began with the Prestige label.  His association with that label lasted from April 1960 to September 1961.  In all, he was present at 13 sessions for the company, though not all of them feature him as leader.

Dolphy's first two albums as leader were Outward Bound and Out There.  The first is more accessible and rooted in the style of bop than some later releases, but it still offered up challenging performances, which at least partly accounts for the record label's choice to include "out" in the title.  Out There is closer to the third stream music which would also form part of Dolphy's legacy, and features Ron Carter on cello.

Far Cry was also recorded for Prestige in 1960 and featured trumpeter Booker Little, who would die tragically at the age of 23 the next year; the album's first three tracks explicitly dealt with Dolphy's allegiance to and respect for Charlie Parker, a link Dolphy was always at pains to stress when addressing critics and listeners.  Dolphy would record several unaccompanied cuts, then a rarity for reed instrumentalists. This album contains one of the most memorable examples: Dolphy's solo interpretation of the Gross-Lawrence standard "Tenderly" on alto saxophone.

Numerous recordings were made of live performances by Dolphy, and these have been issued by many sometimes dubious record labels, drifting in and out of print ever since.  In 1964, Dolphy signed with the legendary Blue Note label and recorded Out To Lunch (once again, the label insisted on using "out" in the title).  This album was deeply rooted in the avant garde, and Dolphy's solos are as dissonant and unpredictable as anything he ever recorded. Out To Lunch was deeply influential for a generation of jazz players, and remains a cornerstone in the modern jazz movement.  On this album, Dolphy cemented an association with Bobby Hutcherson (they had also recorded together the previous year). Together with his work with Andrew Hill on the pianist's Point of Departure, his working relationship with Hutcherson is one of the intriguing might have beens of jazz history.  Dolphy's 1964 Blue Note recording Out to Lunch is often regarded not only as his finest, but also as one of the greatest jazz recordings.

Dolphy had intended to settle in Europe (his fiancée was working as a ballerina in Paris) but he died in Berlin from undiagnosed diabetes on June 29, 1964.

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Please see my Sealed Original ERIC DOLPHY LP Prestige PRST-7304 "Eric Dolphy in Europe Vol. 1" currently up for auction!

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