![]() His genius is bursting with life, ready to take on the world. “So Long Eric,” the tune Mingus wrote for his departure from the band). Yet here he is in playful dissonance on “Hope So Eric” (a.k.a. Eleven weeks later Dolphy would be dead in Berlin. The bassist/composer’s 1964 sextet was unimpeachable: drummer Dannie Richmond, pianist Jaki Byard, trumpeter Johnny Coles, tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan, and altoist/bass clarinetist/flutist Eric Dolphy. You may know the music, but do you know it without fifth-generation tape hiss? (That said, the fidelity is still less than optimal.) This, though, is both the first legitimate release of the concerts, and the first to be mastered from the original source recording. Both these concerts have circulated for decades on pirate releases (especially the 1964 performance, from that spring’s storied European tour). Recent years have been banner ones for newly discovered recordings of classic jazz greats, Charles Mingus included … but the 4-disc Bremen 1964 & 1975 isn’t one of those. ![]()
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