Eric Dolphy / discography
This discography provides an overview of the published records by the multi-instrumentalist and composer Eric Dolphy . It includes his albums under his own name and as a co-leader ( section 1 ), and his contributions to the records of others ( section 2 ).
Albums under his own name and as a co-leader
This section lists the LPs and CDs published by Eric Dolphy in chronological order according to the date of recording (other sorting, e.g. by year of release or label, can be created by clicking on the respective "tab"). It also contains sound recordings in co-leadership. Some obscure recordings from bootleg labels like Natasha , Ingo or Unique Jazz that were released posthumously are not included. Another quartet recording by Dolphys can be found in the second list on a compilation by Daniel Humair .
| album | Label | Release | admission | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Together: Recorded Live at Dolphy's Home, Los Angeles 1954 | Rare live recordings | 2005 | 1954 | Clifford Brown + Eric Dolphy with Harold Land , Richie Powell , George Morrow , Max Roach . Los Angeles, June or July 1954 (private recording) |
| Outward Bound | New jazz / prestige | 1960 | 1960 | Eric Dolphy Quintet with Freddie Hubbard , Jaki Byard , George Tucker , Roy Haynes . Hackensack, April 1, 1960 |
| Here and There | Prestigious | 1966 | 1960-1961 | Eric Dolphy with three different line-ups from April 1, 1960 (studio), July 16, 1961 (live) and September 6, 1961 (live). |
| Looking ahead | Prestige / New Jazz | 1960 | 1960 | Ken McIntyre / Eric Dolphy Quintet with Walter Bishop , Sam Jones , Art Taylor . Hackensack, June 28, 1960. Also published later under the title Fire Waltz with Dolphy as the sole lead artist. |
| Out there | New jazz / prestige | 1960 | 1960 | Eric Dolphy Quartet with Ron Carter , George Duvivier , Roy Haynes . Hackensack, August 15, 1960 |
| Caribé | New jazz / prestige | 1960 | 1960 | The Latin Quintet with Eric Dolphy. The Latin Quintet included Charlie Simmons , Gene Casey , Bill Ellington , Manuel Ramos , Juan Amalbert . Hackensack, August 19, 1960. Initially marketed under the main interpreters The Latin Quintet with Eric Dolphy , sometimes only under Dolphy's name. |
| Far Cry | Prestigious | 1962 | 1960 | Eric Dolphy / Booker Little Quintet with Jaki Byard, Ron Carter, Roy Haynes. Hackensack December 21, 1960. Marketed under the lead artist Eric Dolphy. A few tracks later also as Eric Dolphy / Ron Carter Magic |
| The Latin Jazz Quintet | United Artists | 1961 | 1960 or 1961 | The Latin Quintet with Eric Dolphy; One track on the LP ( You Don't Know What Love Is ) is without Dolphy. The Latin quintet included Felipe Diaz , Arthur Jenkins , Bobbie Rodriguez , Tommy Lopez , Luis Ramirez . Reissued in 2015 by Jazz Wax Records. |
| Straight ahead | Prestigious | 1961 | 1961 | Oliver Nelson Quartet ( Richard Wyands , George Duvivier, Roy Haynes) with Eric Dolphy. Englewood Cliffs, March 1, 1961. Also partly marketed solely under Nelson's name as Images . |
| Candid Dolphy | Candid | 1989 | 1961 | Booker Little Sextet with Julian Priester , Don Friedman , Ron Carter, Max Roach. New York City, March 17th / 4th April 1961. Marketed in 1962 as the Booker Little album under the title Out Front . |
| Where | New jazz / prestige | 1961 | 1961 | Ron Carter Quintet with Mal Waldron , Ron Carter, George Duvivier, Charlie Persip . Englewood Cliffs, June 20, 1961. Marketed initially under the name of Carter, later partly as Eric Dolphy / Ron Carter Magic |
| At the Five Spot, Vol. 1 | Prestige / Original Jazz Classics | 1961 | 1961 | Eric Dolphy / Booker Little Quintet with Mal Waldron, Richard Davis , Ed Blackwell . Live at Five Spot Cafe , NYC, July 16, 1961. Later also titled The Great Concert of Eric Dolphy |
| At the Five Spot, Vol. 2 | Prestigious | 1964 | 1961 | Eric Dolphy / Booker Little Quintet with Mal Waldron, Richard Davis, Ed Blackwell. Live at Five Spot Cafe , NYC, July 16, 1961. Later also titled Immortal Concerts. Five Spot Cafe, New York City, July 16, 1961 with the tracks from the first album on Giant of Jazz (1990, presumably unauthorized) |
| Eric Dolphy and Booker Little Memorial Album | Prestige / SABA | 1964 | 1961 | Eric Dolphy / Booker Little Quintet with Mal Waldron, Richard Davis, Ed Blackwell. Live at Five Spot Cafe , NYC, July 16, 1961. Later also titled At the Five Spot, Vol. 3 |
| Berlin Concerts | Enja | 1972? | 1961 | Eric Dolphy Quintet with Benny Bailey , Pepsi Auer , Jamil Nasser , Buster Smith . Live during the Funkausstellung Berlin (SWF) or in the Club Jazz Salon West-Berlin, August 30, 1962 |
| The Uppsala Concert Vol. 1 | Serene | 1992 | 1961 | Eric Dolphy Quartet with Rony Johansson , Kurt Lindgren , Rune Carlsson . Live at Vastmanland-Dala Nation in Uppsala, September 4, 1961. Simosko & Tepperman point out that the recording was made privately and that the rhythm section is hardly familiar with the repertoire. |
| The Uppsala Concert Vol. 2 | Serene | 1992 | 1961 | Eric Dolphy Quartet with Rony Johansson, Kurt Lindgren, Rune Carlsson. Live at Vastmanland-Dala Nation in Uppsala, September 4th 1961 |
| In Europe Vol. 2 | Prestigious | 1972? | 1961 | Eric Dolphy Quartet with Bent Axen , Erik Moseholm , Jørn Elniff . Live at Berlingske Has , Copenhagen, September 6, 1961 |
| In Europe Vol. 3 | Prestigious | 1972? | 1961 | Eric Dolphy Quartet with Bent Axen, Erik Moseholm, Jørn Elniff. Live at Berlingske Has , Copenhagen, September 6, 1961 |
| In Europe Vol. 1 | Prestigious | 1964 | 1962 | Eric Dolphy Quartet with Bent Axen, Erik Moseholm, Jørn Elniff; Duo with Chuck Israels . Live at Studenterforeningen , Copenhagen, September 8, 1961. Also under the title The Copenhagen Concert and on the Danish debut label and Be Jazz. |
| Stockholm Concert | Enja / Inner City | 1982 | 1961 | Eric Dolphy Quintet / Quartet with Idrees Sulieman , Knud Jörgensen and Rune Öfwerman , Jimmy Woode , Sture Kallin . Live recording of the Swedish radio, allegedly from September 25, 1961 (quartet) and November 19, 1961 (quintet) |
| Vintage Dolphy | GM Recordings / Enja | 1986 | 1962-1963 | In various Third Stream lineups with Eddie Costa , Barry Galbraith , Art Davis , Chuck Israels, Sticks Evans , among others ; mostly compositions by Gunther Schuller . The Enja edition is without the bonus tracks. |
| Illinois Concert | Blue note | 1999 | 1963 | Eric Dolphy Quartet with Herbie Hancock , Eddie Khan , JC Moses and one track each with The University Of Illinois Brass Ensemble and The University Of Illinois Big Band. Live University of Illinois , Champaign, Illinois , March 10, 1963 |
| The Eric Dolphy Memorial Album | Vee-Jay / Joy | 1964 | 1963 | Eric Dolphy Octet with Woody Shaw , Prince Lasha , Clifford Jordan , Sonny Simmons , Bobby Hutcherson , Eddie Khan, JC Moses and Charles Moffett senior ; NYC, July 3, 1963 and duo recordings with Richard Davis on July 1, 1963. Allegedly initially and later again under the title Conversations on FM Records, Columbia and Celluloid and with other pieces from the same sessions as a Music Matador on A Jazz Hour With . 2018 with further material from the same sessions under the name Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions |
| Iron man | Douglas / Celluloid / WestWind | 1968 | 1963 | Eric Dolphy Nonet with Woody Shaw, Prince Lasha, Clifford Jordan, Sonny Simmons, Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis, Eddie Khan, JC Moses; NYC, July 3, 1963 and duo recordings with Richard Davis on July 1, 1963. Later with other pieces from the same sessions Music Matador at A Jazz Hour With and Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions . |
| Out to lunch! | Blue note | 1964 | 1964 | Eric Dolphy Quintet with Freddie Hubbard , Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis, Tony Williams |
| Other aspects | Blue note | 1987 | 1961-1964 | Eric Dolphy in various combo lineups |
| Epistrophy | Instant Composers Pool | 1973? | 1964 | Eric Dolphy Quartet with Misha Mengelberg , Jacques Schols , Han Bennink . Live in Eindhoven, June 1, 1964. Just one piece; on the rest of the album Mengelberg improvises and accompanies his parrot. |
| Last date | Fontana | 1964 | 1964 | Eric Dolphy Quartet with Misha Mengelberg, Jacques Schols, Han Bennink. Live in Hilversum, June 2, 1964 |
| Last recordings | West wind | 1988 | 1964 | Eric Dolphy Septet with Donald Byrd , Nathan Davis , Jack Diéval , Jacques B. Hess , Franco Manzecchi , Jacky Bambou. ORTF, June 11, 1964. Also under the title Unrealized Recordings . With two other titles in 1999 as The Complete Last Recordings with Norma. With Last Date and the title “Epistrophy” of the ICP record 2010 also as The Complete Last Recordings: In Hilversum & Paris 1964 with Domino. |
| Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions | Resonance Records | 2018 | 1963 | In addition to the two previously released Dolphy albums Conversations (FM Records, 1963) and Iron Man (Douglas, 1968), the edition contains previously unreleased studio material from this session. The LP edition also contains a 15-minute piece with Dolphy as well as Bob James , Ron Brooks , Robert Pozar and David Schwartz from WUOM Studios in Ann Arbor on March 2, 1964. |
Sound carrier as accompanying musician (selection)
A number of releases of concert and radio recordings with unclear authorization, on which Eric Dolphy participated, were not included in the discography.
| Musician | album | Label | Release | admission | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roy Porter | Little Whig / Gassin 'the Whig | Savoy | ? | 1949 | re-released as Various Artists Black California |
| Different artists | Rock all night | Mercury | 1957 | 1956-1957 | Soundtrack LP for the music film of the same name by Roger Corman with the combo of Eric Beal and The Platters ; Dolphy also plays the baritone saxophone |
| Charles Mingus | Baron Mingus - West Coast 1945-49 | Uptown | 2000 | 1949 | previously single recordings on Singles Inspiration and The Power of Love |
| Gerry Mulligan / Chico Hamilton | Complete at Newport 1958 | Rare Live | 2008 | 1958 | The album contains two sets from the performance of the Mulligan Quartet with Farmer, three pieces from his trio with Marian McPartland and five pieces from the performance of the newly formed quintet by Chico Hamilton with Dolphy (which for marketing reasons is historically incorrectly titled here as Chico Hamilton Eric Dolphy Quintet becomes). Some of these recordings are also documented (in abbreviated form) in the film Jazz on a Summer's Day . |
| Chico Hamilton | The Original Ellington Suite | Pacific Jazz Records | 2000 | 1958 | Instead of this recording with the newly formed Hamilton quintet, a recording with the original Hamilton quintet plus Paul Horn was released, i.e. with Buddy Collette , Fred Katz and Jim Hall instead of Dolphy, Nat Gershman and John Pisano . The first recordings were discovered by chance via a test press that was sold through a second-hand bookshop. |
| Chico Hamilton | With strings attached | Warner Brothers | 1959 | 1958 | |
| Ernie Andrews | Travellin 'Light | GNP / Crescendo | 1959 | 1958 | |
| Chico Hamilton | Gongs East! | Warner Brothers | 1959 | 1958 | also on Discovery |
| Chico Hamilton | The Tree Faces of Chico | Warner Brothers | 1959 | 1959 | |
| Chico Hamilton | That Hamilton Man | From the Jazz Vault | 1979 | 1959 | also as Chico Hamilton Quintet featuring Eric Dolphy on Fresh Sound Records in 1991 |
| Sammy Davis Junior | I gotta right to swing | Decca | 1960 | 1960 | with the orchestra of Sy Oliver ; Dolphy only on "There Is No Greater Love" and three other tracks |
| Charles Mingus | Pre-Bird | Mercury Records | 1960 | 1960 | 1965 at Solid State under the title Mingus Revisited |
| Oliver Nelson | Screamin 'the blues | New jazz | 1960 | 1960 | |
| Charles Mingus | Mingus at Antibes | Atlantic | 1976 | 1960 | |
| Ruth Brown | Best of Ruth Brown | Atlantic | 2006 | 1960 | Dolphy is involved in three pieces with a larger cast: "Takin Care of Business", "Honey Boy", "It Tears Me All to Pieces" |
| John Lewis | The Wonderful World of Jazz | Atlantic | 1961 | 1960 | |
| John Lewis / Gary McFarland | essence | Atlantic | 1962 | 1960 | Dolphy is only involved in three titles: "Night Float", "Tillamook Two", "Another Encounter" |
| Eddie Lockjaw Davis | Trane Whistle | Prestigious | 1960 | 1960 | |
| Charles Mingus | Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus | Candid | 1960 | 1960 | |
| Charles Mingus | Mingus | Candid | 1961 | 1960 | |
| Charles Mingus | Mysterious blues | Candid | 1988 | 1960 | |
| Charles Mingus | Reincarnation of a Love Bird | Candid | 1988 | 1960 | |
| Jazz Artists Guild | Newport Rebels | Candid | 1961 | 1960 | |
| John Lewis / Gunther Schuller / Jim Hall | Jazz Abstractions | Atlantic | 1961 | 1960 | |
| Ornette Coleman | Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation | Atlantic | 1961 | 1960 | Alternate take also on Ornette Coleman Free Jazz 1960 with Giants of Jazz |
| Abbey Lincoln | Straight ahead | Candid | 1961 | 1961 | |
| Oliver Nelson | The Blues and the Abstract Truth | Blue note | 1961 | 1961 | |
| Booker Little | Out front | Candid | 1961 | 1961 | |
| Ted Curson | Plenty of horn | Old Town / Columbia | 1961 | 1961 | Dolphy only participated in two of the nine titles |
| George Russell | Ezz-thetic | Riverside | 1961 | 1961 | |
| John Coltrane | Africa / Brass | Impulses! | 1961 | 1961 | |
| John Coltrane | Olé Coltrane | Atlantic | 1961 | 1961 | |
| Ron Carter | Where? | New jazz / prestige | 1961 | 1961 | |
| Sometimes Waldron | The Quest | New jazz / prestige | 1961 | 1961 | |
| Max Roach | Percussion Bitter Sweat | Impulses | 1961 | 1961 | |
| John Coltrane | "Live" at the Village Vanguard | Impulses | 1962 | 1961 | 1997 with The Other Village Vanguard Tapes and further recordings as The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings . |
| John Coltrane | The Other Village Vanguard Tapes | Impulses | 1976 | 1961 | 1997 also with further recordings also as The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings |
| John Coltrane | So Many Things: The European Tour 1961 | Acrobat Music | 2015 | 1961 | 4-CD box with excerpts from the concerts of the Coltrane Quintet in Paris, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Stockholm |
| John Coltrane | Two Giants Together. Rare Live Performance 1962 | Music disc | 1976 | 1962 | Birdland, February 1962, later as John Coltrane - Live At Birdland Featuring Eric Dolphy at Affinity (presumably bootleg) |
| Pony Poindexter | Pony's Express | Epic | 1962 | 1962 | Dolphy is only involved in two titles. Later editions also as a Super Sax Session |
| Benny Golson | Pop + jazz = swing | Audio fidelity | 1962 | 1962 | Big band with strings. Later re-released as Just Jazz without strings . |
| Charles Mingus | Town Hall Concert | United Artists | 1962 | 1962 | Released in 1994 as The Complete Town Hall Concert on Blue Note. Dolphy is featured in the title "Epitaph (Part One)". |
| Orchestra USA | Debut | Colpix | 1963 | 1963 | re-released on LoneHill Jazz |
| Freddie Hubbard | The body and the soul | Impulses | 1964 | 1963 | |
| Teddy Charles | Russia Goes Jazz | United Artists | 1964 | 1963 | |
| Charles Mingus | Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus | Impulses | 1964 | 1963 | |
| Gil Evans | The Individualism of Gil Evans | Verve Records | 1964 | 1963 | Dolphy is only involved in four titles; the other titles were recorded after his death. |
| Sextet of Orchestra USA | Mack the Knife and other Berlin Theater Songs of Kurt Weill | RCA | 1966 | 1964 | Dolphy is only involved in half of the titles; the other titles were recorded after his death. |
| Charles Mingus | Cornell 1964 | Blue note | 2007 | 1964 | |
| Andrew Hill | Point of departure | Blue note | 1964 | 1964 | |
| Charles Mingus | Mingus at Town Hall with Eric Dolphy | Jazz workshop | 1964 | 1964 | later published on Fantasy |
| Charles Mingus | Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Volume 1 | Ulysse Musique | 1986 | 1964 | |
| Charles Mingus | Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Volume 2 | Ulysse Musique | 1986 | 1964 | 1989 as In Amsterdam 1964 with DIW Records |
| Charles Mingus | The Great Concert, Paris 1964 | Musidisc / America | 1970 | 1964 | partial overlap with Revenge! The Legendary Paris Concert feat. Eric Dolphy |
| Charles Mingus | Revenge! The Legendary Paris Concert feat. Eric Dolphy | Revenge | 1999 | 1964 | partial overlap with The Great Concert, Paris 1964 |
| Charles Mingus | Mingus in Europe, Volume I. | Enja | 1979 | 1964 | Wuppertal City Hall April 26, 1964 |
| Charles Mingus | Mingus in Europe, Volume II | Enja | 1983 | 1964 | Wuppertal City Hall April 26, 1964 |
| Daniel Humair | Surrounded 1964-1987 | Flat & Sharp / Blue Flame | 1994 | 1964 | Radio recording of the Kenny Drew Trio with Dolphy as soloist; only two titles |
literature
- Vladimir Simosko & Barry Tepperman Eric Dolphy: A Musical Biography and Discography , Da Capo Press, 1996 (2nd edition).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simosko & Tepperman Eric Dolphy , p. 114
- ↑ Simosko & Tepperman Eric Dolphy , p. 115 point out that Dolphy was traveling with Coltrane's band in California at this time
- ^ ICP discography