At the Five Spot
Live album by Eric Dolphy
Released 1961
Recorded 16 July 1961
Genre Avant-garde jazz
Post-bop
Label New Jazz / OJC
Producer Esmond Edwards
Eric Dolphy chronology
The Quest
(1961) At the Five Spot
(1961) Memorial Album
(1961)
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 and Booker Little'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, titled Memorial Album, containing "Number Eight (Potsa Lotsa)" and "Booker's Waltz". These two tracks were later released on the Rudy Van Gelder remaster of Volume 2. Two other tracks, Mal Waldron's "Status Seeking" and Dolphy's solo rendition of Billie Holiday's "God Bless The Child", were released on the Dolphy compilation Here and There. Dolphy and 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
01 "Fire Waltz" (Waldron) – 13:44
02 "Bee Vamp" (Little) – 12:30
03 "The Prophet" (Dolphy) – 21:22
04 "Bee Vamp" (Alternate Take) – 9:27
(Track 4 not on original LP.)
Personnel
Eric Dolphy — alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
Booker Little — trumpet
Mal Waldron — piano
Richard Davis — double bass
Ed Blackwell — drums
