At the Five Spot
Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot, Vols. 1 and 2, is a pair of jazz live albums documenting one night (16 July 1961) from the end of multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy and trumpeter Booker Little's two-week residency at the Five Spot jazz club in New York. This was the only night to be recorded. The engineer was Rudy Van Gelder.
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| Released | Volume 1: December 1961
Volume 2: November 1963 Memorial Album: 1965 | |||
| Recorded | 16 July 1961 | |||
| Venue | Five Spot Café, New York, NY | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde jazz Post-bop | |||
| Label | New Jazz | |||
| Producer | Esmond Edwards | |||
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| Down Beat | |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |
A third volume from this session, titled the Memorial Album, was later released in 1965, after the premature deaths of both Little and Dolphy, containing "Number Eight (Potsa Lotsa)" and "Booker's Waltz". These two tracks were later released on the Van Gelder remaster of Volume 2.
All three volumes were reissued, without alternate takes, as a triple LP under the title The Great Concert of Eric Dolphy. Two other tracks, Mal Waldron's "Status Seeking" and Dolphy's solo rendition of Billie Holiday's "God Bless The Child", were released on the Dolphy compilation Here and There. Dolphy and Little were backed by a rhythm section consisting of pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Eddie Blackwell.
Dolphy's composition "The Prophet" is a tribute to the artist Richard "Prophet" Jennings, who had designed the covers of Dolphy's earlier albums, Outward Bound and Out There.