At the Five Spot

Infobox Album
Name = At the Five Spot
Type = Studio album
Artist = Eric Dolphy


Released = 16 July 1961
Recorded = Various times
Genre = Avant-garde jazz
Post-bop
Length =
Label = New Jazz / OJC
Producer = Esmond Edwards
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:z0lvad6kt8w3 volume 1]
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ik9ds37ya3zg volume 2]
Last album = "Far Cry"
(1961)
This album = "At the Five Spot"
(1961)
Next album = "Memorial Album"
(1961)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Volume two cover
Type = Studio album


Lower caption =

"At the Five Spot" volumes one and two is a pair of jazz albums documenting one night (16 July 1961) from the end of Eric Dolphy'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. A third volume from this session was released, called "Memorial Album", and some other stray tracks (including a solo Dolphy rendition of "God Bless the Child") were later released on compilations. Dolphy and trumpeter Booker Little were backed by a rhythm section consisting of pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Ed Blackwell.

Dolphy's composition "The Prophet" is a tribute to the artist Richard Jennings, who had designed the covers of Dolphy's earlier albums, "Outward Bound" and "Out There".

Track listing

Volume one

#"Fire Waltz" (Waldron) –13:44
#"Bee Vamp" (Little) –12:30
#"The Prophet" (Dolphy) –21:22
#"Bee Vamp" (alternative take) –9:27::"(Track 4 not on original LP.)"

Volume two

#"Aggression" (Little) –17:21
#"Like Someone in Love" (Burke–van Heusen) –19:58

Personnel

*Eric Dolphy — bass clarinet, alto saxophone
*Booker Little — trumpet
*Mal Waldron — piano
*Richard Davis — bass
*Ed Blackwell — drums

ources

*Richard Cook & Brian Morton. "The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD" 6th edition. ISBN 0-14-051521-6