Eric Dolphy At the Five Spot, Vol. 1

Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot is a pair of live albums by the jazz musician and composer Eric Dolphy. They were released in December 1961 and November 1963 through Prestige Records. They were recorded on the night of 16 July 1961 at the end of Dolphy's two-week residency, alongside trumpeter Booker Little, at the Five Spot jazz club in New York. It was the only night to be recorded. The engineer was Rudy Van Gelder. A third volume of recordings from the same evening, given the title Memorial Album, was released in 1965, after the premature deaths of both Little and Dolphy, containing "Number Eight" and "Booker's Waltz". These two tracks were later released on the Van Gelder remaster of Volume 2. All three volumes were reissued, without alternate takes, as a 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 Eddie Blackwell. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)