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• One night during a one-time, two-week engagement at the Five Spot produced enough music of lasting merit for three albums. When Rudy Van Gelder took his portable equipment down to the fabled Cooper Square jazz club on July 16, 1961, he captured the interaction of an extraordinary quintet.

  Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, Mal Waldron, Richard Davis and Ed Blackwell had formed a cooperative group and, if LIttle had not died in October 1961, there is no doubt that it would have been a potent force in the music of the 1960s and beyond. Dolphy himself died in June 1964, after establishing himself as one of the important contemporary reedmen. Here his alto saxophone and bass clarinet and Littles trumpet explore three originals: “The Prophet” by Dolphy, “Bee Vamp” by Little, and “Fire Waltz” by Waldron. Its time caught in a bottle music for the ages.

  Part of the ultimate audiophile Prestige stereo reissues from Analogue Productions 25 of the most collectible, rarest, most audiophile-sounding Rudy Van Gelder recordings ever made. All cut at 33 1/3 and also released on Hybrid SACD

  All mastered from the original analog master tapes by mastering maestro Kevin Gray. 200-gram LPs pressed at Acoustic Sounds’ state-of-the-art pressing plant, Quality Record Pressings, plated by Gary Salstrom

  Tip-on jackets on thick cardboard stock

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• Artist: Eric Dolphy Label: Analogue Productions, New Jazz, Prestige Format: LP Units: 1 Country: US Genre: Jazz Style: Modal, Post Bop

• A1 Fire Waltz
  A2 Bee Vamp
  B1 The Prophet