Loading home…
Out There is an album by the jazz musician and composer Eric Dolphy which was released by Prestige Records in September 1961. It features Dolphy in a quartet with cellist Ron Carter, bassist George Duvivier, and drummer Roy Haynes. It was Dolphy's second album as a leader, released following his time with Charles Mingus. The album features four original compositions by Dolphy, "Eclipse" by Mingus, "Sketch of Melba" by Randy Weston, and "Feathers" by Hale Smith. The cover features a painting by Richard Jennings, known as "Prophet". Dolphy's group on Out There resembles the late 1950s ensembles of Chico Hamilton, with whom Dolphy played and recorded during that time, in that it features both a cello and a bass; however, unlike Hamilton's group, Dolphy's does not contain a guitar or other chordal instrument. Dolphy and Carter solo over bass and drums only, helping to give the album a freer, more open sound when compared to Dolphy's previous album, Outward Bound, which featured pianist Jaki Byard. "Eclipse" from this album is one of the rare instances where Dolphy solos on B♭ clarinet. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_The...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)