At the Five Spot

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.

At the Five Spot
Live album by
Eric Dolphy
Released1: November/December 1961[1][2]

2: February 1964[3][4]

Memorial Album: 1965
Recorded16 July 1961
GenreAvant-garde jazz
Post-bop
LabelNew Jazz
ProducerEsmond Edwards
Eric Dolphy chronology
The Quest
(1961)		 At the Five Spot
(1961)		 Memorial Album
(1961)
Volume Two cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[5]
Allmusic [6]
Down Beat[7]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[8]

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.

cover for Memorial Album

All three volumes were reissued, without alternate takes, as at triple LP under the title The Great Concert of Eric Dolphy. 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.

Setlist
  1. "Status Seeking"
  2. "God Bless the Child"
  3. "Aggression"
  4. "Like Someone in Love"
  5. "Fire Waltz"
  6. "Bee Vamp" (two takes)
  7. "The Prophet"
  8. "Number Eight (Potsa Lotsa)"
  9. "Booker's Waltz"[9]

Track listing

Volume one
  1. "Fire Waltz" (Waldron) – 13:44
  2. "Bee Vamp" (Little) – 12:30
  3. "The Prophet" (Dolphy) – 21:22
  4. "Bee Vamp" (Alternate Take) – 9:27
(Track 4 not on original LP.)

Volume two
  1. "Aggression" (Little) – 17:21
  2. "Like Someone in Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen) – 19:58
  3. "Number Eight (Potsa Lotsa)" (Dolphy) – 15:33
  4. "Booker's Waltz" (Little) – 14:39
(Tracks 3-4 not on original LP.)

Memorial Album
  1. "Number Eight (Potsa Lotsa)" (Dolphy) - 15:33
  2. "Booker's Waltz" (Little) - 14:39

Personnel

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

References
  1. "New LP Releases". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. 20 November 1961. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  2. Editorial Staff, Cash Box (16 December 1961). "Dec. LP Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  3. "Dolphy, Eric". Schwann Stereo Record Guide. 17 (3). 1965. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  4. Hentoff, Nat (April 1964). "Jazz and Folk Recordings". The Atlantic Monthly. Houghton Mifflin Company.
  5. Nastos, Michael G.. At the Five Spot at AllMusic volume 1
  6. Yanow, Scott. At the Five Spot at AllMusic volume 2
  7. Down Beat: August 16, 1962 vol. 29, no. 22
  8. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 62. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  9. https://www.jazzdisco.org/eric-dolphy/discography/
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