Eric Dolphy/Ron Carter-Magic (1975)
Artist: Eric Dolphy/Ron Carter
Title: Magic
Label: Prestige
Format: 2XLP
Cat #: P-24053
Year of Release: 1975
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1975
Listed Condition: VG/VG
Sell Date: 7/25/25
Sell Price: $6.20
Discogs Last Sold: 4/21/25 VG+/VG+ $18.00
Low: $5.00 2/4/22 VG/VG
Median: $11.72
Average: $12.55
High: $28.82 9/1/23 NM/VG+
Current low price: $10.50 VG/VG (second disc only), $24.08 VG+/G+
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 15
Have/Want: 647/81
Where: Fresno, CA
Time it took to sell: 10 years
Where and When Bought: can't remember, Boston early 90's used?
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A
Sad To See It Go: No
This is one of those records sitting in my storage space the last 15 years that I have no recollection of buying or how this got to be so much lower than the going rate. That's how it goes. This is a reissue of 2 albums with both Eric Dolphy and Ron Carter. The first 2 sides are Dolphy's Far Cry album from 1962 credited to him and Booker Little. The other record was first issued with Ron Carter being the bandleader with Eric Dolphy and Mal Waldron in 1962 titled Where? Both these records were issued under the New Jazz imprint which ran as a sub-label under Prestige from 1949-1964. After that, its titles were either discontinued or folded into the Prestige imprint. In light of that this 1975 pairing and remastering makes a bit more sense.
Ron Carter is still alive and can be caught gigging from time to time. In fact, he was just at the Blue Note in NYC last May. Eric Dolphy passed prematurely in Berlin 1964, so these recordings take on that much more value for scarcities sake as well as his alto sax, clarinet and flute. Ron Carter, while known primarily as upright bass player, plays the cello on Where?, so that marks a landmark experience regarding him to these sessions.
It's one of those things where at some point you can't read too much about music and just listen to it. I started to look some things up for background and stopped when the AllMusic writer accused Carter of being monochromatic. It didn't sound mono-anything to me! The liner notes by Gary Giddins from 1975 does a better job. He was at the tender age of 27 when he wrote these notes, but they seem as formal, academic and chiseled in granite as any other tomb that might contain the topic. He can better tell you about the particulars more than I can or will.
With Bop and Post-Bop there is much material to parse and many of the primary players are long gone. That Ron Carter is still active at 88 places him in the realm of Sonny Rollins and Marshall Allen of Sun Ra's Arkestra for oldest living significant Jazz musicians.
I'm going to stay in my lane and say these early 60's records are topflight.
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