Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. was an American jazz alto saxophonist,bass clarinetist and flautist. On a few occasions,he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the same era. His use of the bass clarinet helped to establish the instrument within jazz. Dolphy extended the vocabulary and boundaries of the alto saxophone,and was among the earliest significant jazz flute soloists.
Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron was an American jazz pianist,composer,and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950,after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Waldron led his own bands and played for those led by Charles Mingus,Jackie McLean,John Coltrane,and Eric Dolphy,among others. During Waldron's period as house pianist for Prestige Records in the late 1950s,he appeared on dozens of albums and composed for many of them,including writing his most famous song,"Soul Eyes",for Coltrane. Waldron was often an accompanist for vocalists,and was Billie Holiday's regular accompanist from April 1957 until her death in July 1959.
Mingus at Antibes was originally issued by BYG Records under the title Charles Mingus Live With Eric Dolphy in Japan in 1974. It was recorded at a live 1960 performance at the Jazz àJuan festival at Juan-les-Pins by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus;and was re-released by Atlantic Records in more complete form as a double album with the title Mingus In Antibes in the United States in 1976.
At the Five Spot,Vols. 1 and 2,is a pair of jazz albums documenting one night from the end of Eric Dolphy and Booker Little's two-week residency at the Five Spot in New York. This was the only night to be recorded. The engineer was Rudy Van Gelder.
Percussion Bitter Sweet is an album by jazz drummer Max Roach recorded in 1961,released on Impulse! Records. It was trumpeter Booker Little's penultimate recording before he died from uremia in early October 1961.
Far Cry is a jazz album by musician Eric Dolphy with trumpeter Booker Little,originally released in 1962 on New Jazz,a subsidiary of the Prestige label. Featuring their co-led quintet,it is one of the few studio recordings of their partnership. It is also one of the earliest appearances of bassist Ron Carter on record. Dolphy took part in Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz session before recording this album on the same day. He had participated in the recording of Jazz Abstractions the previous day.
It's Time is a 1962 album by jazz drummer Max Roach,released on Impulse! Records which also features trumpeter Richard Williams,tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan,trombonist Julian Priester,pianist Mal Waldron,bassist Art Davis,and a vocal choir conducted by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Singer Abbey Lincoln appears on "Lonesome Lover".
"Left Alone" is a jazz song written by singer Billie Holiday and pianist/composer Mal Waldron,and published by E.B. Marks.
Here and There is a jazz album by multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy. It was originally released in 1966 on the Prestige label as PRLP 7382. It contains tracks recorded on three separate dates,in different locations. Mal Waldron's "Status Seeking" and Dolphy's solo bass clarinet version of Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child" were recorded on July 16,1961 at the Five Spot in New York City as part of the concert that was documented on the At the Five Spot recordings. "April Fool" and "G.W. " were recorded on April 1,1960 at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs,New Jersey as part of the session that yielded Outward Bound,Dolphy's first album as a leader. "Don't Blame Me" was recorded on September 6,1961 in Berlingske Has,Copenhagen,Denmark during Dolphy's second European tour,as part of the sessions that produced Eric Dolphy in Europe Volumes 1-3.
Out Front is a 1961 album by American jazz trumpeter Booker Little featuring performances recorded and released by the Candid label.
Mal/3:Sounds is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1958 and released on the New Jazz label.
Left Alone is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1959 and released on the Bethlehem label.
Straight Ahead is an album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring performances recorded in 1961 for the Candid label.
Jazz Composers Workshop is an album featuring jazz bassist Charles Mingus. It combines the earlier album Moods of Mingus with a Wally Cirillo session released earlier on the album Wally Cirillo &Bobby Scott. It was released on the Savoy label.
The Teddy Charles Tentet is a 1956 jazz album featuring a tentet led by multi-instrumentalist Teddy Charles. Critically well received,the album is listed as one of the "Core Collection" albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz and an essential recording in 2000's The Essential Jazz Records:Modernism to Postmodernism. Released originally in high fidelity vinyl by Atlantic,the album has been reissued on CD and LP multiple times since 2001.
White Gardenia is an album by jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin with brass and strings which was recorded in 1961 and released on the Riverside label. Intended as a tribute album to jazz singer Billie Holiday,who had died two years earlier,she had sung all of the songs,except for the title track,which is the only original composition by Griffin on the album. The white gardenia was the flower Holiday often wore in her hair. The orchestral arrangements were written by Melba Liston and Norman Simmons.
Where? is the debut album by bassist Ron Carter recorded in 1961 at Van Gelder Studio and released on the New Jazz label. Some reissues of the album appear under Eric Dolphy's name.
The Chico Hamilton Quintet with Strings Attached is an album by drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton's Quintet,recorded in 1958 and released on the Warner Bros. label. The album features some of the earliest released recordings of Eric Dolphy.
Just Wailin' is an album recorded by flautist Herbie Mann,saxophonist Charlie Rouse,guitarist Kenny Burrell and pianist Mal Waldron in 1958 for the New Jazz label.
"Fire Waltz" is a composition by Mal Waldron. The original version,by Waldron's sextet featuring Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin,was recorded on June 27,1961. It has become a jazz standard.
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