Out to lunch!
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Out to lunch! (Engl., actually away for lunch! is used as slang for excellent or crazy) is a jazz album by Eric Dolphy , which was published in 1964. This is Dolphy's only album that he recorded for Blue Note Records as a band leader . Recorded in Englewood Cliffs on February 25, 1964 , the album is now considered one of the best albums in the history of the label and represents a high point of avant-garde jazz of the 1960s.
background
At the beginning of 1964, Dolphy moved from Prestige to Blue Note Records. For his debut on this label, Dolphy wrote five new pieces and presented a completely new sound concept, an "airy framework of colored abstraction" and diverse rhythms; Hans-Jürgen Schaal also noticed a change in playing stance : “half transparency in chamber music , half free jazz laboratory”.
The title of the first track Hat and Beard refers to Thelonious Monk . The theme is based on a 9/4 ostinato ; the piece contains a first-class percussive interlude by Tony Williams and Bobby Hutcherson .
Something Sweet, Something Tender features a remarkable duet by Richard Davis on bass and Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet.
Gazzelloni , introduces the advanced state of Dolphy's flute playing. It is named after the classical flautist Severino Gazzelloni , who was particularly known as an interpreter of new music . Despite the very complex 13-bar theme and free, but form-conscious improvisation, the composition is structured like a bop title.
The bandleader uses the alto saxophone on the title track of the album and on Straight Up and Down , which (according to Dolphy's interview in the original liner notes ) is reminiscent of "the walk of a drunk".
Drummer Tony Williams had turned eighteen a few months before the album was recorded and was featured on the cover as Anthony Williams .
A few months after the album was recorded, Dolphy accompanied Charles Mingus on a European tour and died of a diabetic coma . In this respect the record was his legacy and indicates a transition to creative jazz .
Track list
All compositions are by Eric Dolphy.
page 1
- Hat and Beard - 8:24
- Something Sweet, Something Tender - 6:02
- Gazzelloni - 7:22
Page 2
- Out to Lunch - 12:06
- Straight Up and Down - 8:19
reception
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Some of the critics noted at the time of publication that Dolphy began to play more conventionally with this album and threatened to lose its avant-garde claim. "However, given the jointly developed intensity and enormous communicative diversity that inspire the pieces, that seems far-fetched." As for Ralf Dombrowski , for Richard Cook and Brian Morton in their The Penguin Guide to Jazz, the album is a masterful classic and part of the essential core of a basic discotheque with jazz records; they marked it with a crown. Chris Kelsey counted Out to Lunch in his all- music essay Free Jazz: A Subjective History among the twenty most important albums in this genre; Steve Huey gave the album the maximum rating (five stars) in his review for All Music . The album was also inducted onto The Wire's “100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)” wirelist .
The music magazine Jazzwise selected the album at number 12 on The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World list . Keith Shadwick wrote:
"Funnily enough, although Out To Lunch has the iconic cover and evolutionary reputation, the real breakthrough Dolphy disc [...]. Among other wonders, it contained the revolutionary 14-minute Dolphy-Richard Davis duet on ' Alone Together '. Be that as it may, Out To Lunch represents another side of the Dolphy genius, showing him as a musician-leader intent on involving his entire group in the improvisatory process at every level and at all times. Of course, he remains the group's most gripping player (he wrote all the material too) and his imitation of a drunk on 'Straight Up And Down' remains unsurpassed except by himself. What would he have done next? "
The German-language edition of Rolling Stone magazine selected the album in 2013 in the list of the 100 best jazz albums at number 5.
Pitchfork Media leads Out to Lunch at number 15 of the 200 best albums of the 1960s.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Definition of out to lunch. Retrieved June 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Review by Steve Huey on allmusic.com (accessed October 22, 2017)
- ↑ Review by Greg Simmons on allaboutjazz.com (accessed October 22, 2017)
- ↑ Penguin Guide To Jazz: "Five Star" Recordings ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on counterpoint-music.com (accessed June 22, 2018)
- ↑ Ralf Dombrowski : Basis-Diskothek Jazz (= Reclams Universal-Bibliothek. No. 18372). Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-018372-3 , p. 67.
- ^ Richard Cook, Brian Morton [1992]: Eric Dolphy . In: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (= The Penguin Guide to Jazz ), 8th edition, Penguin, New York 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 , p. 359.
- ↑ Chris Kelsey: Free Jazz: A Subjective History. ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved from Thomas Chapin's website on July 20, 2012
- ↑ The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World on jazzwisemagazine.com (accessed June 22, 2018)
- ↑ Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Jazz Albums . Retrieved November 16, 2016.
- ↑ The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s on pitchfork.com (accessed June 22, 2018)
