Eric Dolphy-Out To Lunch! (1964)


 

Artist: Eric Dolphy

Title: Out To Lunch!

Label: Blue Note

Format: CD

Cat #: CDP 7 46524 2

Year of Release: 1964

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1987

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 5/16/25

Sell Price: $4.71

Discogs Last Sold: 5/10/25 NM/NM $6.00

Low: $2.39 NM/NM 12/3/24

Median: $5.20

Average: $5.75

High: $9.09 NM/NM 2/12/25

Current low price: $4.14 VG+/VG+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 29

Have/Want: 809/206

Where Sold: Kapolei, HI

Time it took to sell: 10 years

Where and When Bought: NYC St Marks Smash early; 90's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+

Sad To See It Go: No

Genre defining 1964 Hard Bop verging Free (or Free Jazz coming out of Hard Bop, depending on how you see it) on the Blue Note label.  It's complicated.  Led by Eric Dolphy on alto sax as well as flute and bass clarinet.  He is joined by Bobby Hutcherson on vibes, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Richard Davis on bass and then 18-year-old prodigy Tony Williams on drums.

I got this dawn of the jazz remastering era CD from 1987 in the early 90's.  This recording was selected for the 20 CD 24-bit remastering series in 1999 by the original engineer Rudy Van Gelder, and that is what is currently up for streaming.  That said, I thought this 1987 master sounded great without A/B'ing anything.  Sometimes your ears train up or train down to the audio at hand.  Sometimes the early CD audio can sound thin but by the time things went from 16 to 20, you start to not be able to tell the difference without an active comparison.  Streaming sure doesn't help.

Everyone here is gone.  Dolphy passed of untreated diabetes after collapsing on stage in Berlin at the age of 36, the year this was released.   Out To Lunch! was his only recording as bandleader.  Tony Williams had a groundbreaking fusion history with Miles Davis and was a bandleader in his own right.  He passed in 1997 at 51 after having a heart attack following minor surgery.  Freddie Hubbard is probably the biggest bandleader here and passed at 70 while recovering from a heart attack in 2008.  Bobby Hutcherson, also a well-known bandleader, passed in 2016 at 75 after struggling with emphysema.  Richard Davis passed in 2023, getting to 93 years old and had a long career and discography as well.  

All men of great consequence in Jazz and music in general.




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