In Europe 3 [Live]

Eric Dolphy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Ojc
• ASIN: B000000YN2
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #313,628 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, But Unnecessary Live Dolphy, September 30, 2000

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Michael B. Richman (Portland, Maine USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Europe 3 (Audio CD)

The three volumes of "In Europe" capture Eric Dolphy during two nights in Copenhagen on September 6 & 8, 1961. Not being able to support a tour with a full-time band, Dolphy would appear as a featured soloist with various ad hoc groups. For these Prestige recordings, Dolphy is backed by an the all-Danish rhythm trio of Bent Axen on piano, Erik Mosenhohm on bass, and Jorn Elniff on drums. They provide only adequate support, and are the primary reason these sessions only receive three-star ratings. The reason why I said this recording was unnecessary in my review title is OJC could have very easily combined the three volumes of "In Europe" into a 2CD set. "Volume 3" only features three tunes -- "When Lights Are Low," Dizzy Gillespie's "Woody N' You," and the Dolphy original "In The Blues." When you consider that the 16-minute plus "In The Blues" is actually three takes of the same song, this disc is very short on "master" takes -- not even thirty minutes of music. If you compare that to the two volumes of Dolphy's best live recordings at the Five Spot Cafe (where each disc is over an hour long, not to mention the material and the band are better), you definitely aren't getting much value here. Although these recordings don't document Dolphy at his best, upon his return to the U.S. he would again make some of the music he is remembered for most -- he joined John Coltrane's band for the next six months, and was a major contributor on the landmark Village Vanguard recordings.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Any one tune worth the CD. Any 1 minute, really, June 14, 2002

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macfawlty "macfawlty" (potomac, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Europe 3 (Audio CD)

I don't know where someone comes off with only 3 stars for these Europe sets. This is some of the best Dolphy. I may have only 20 years worth of jazz listening and collecting with my mere 3,000 pieces of mostly jazz LP's and CD's, but I got to dig REAL DEEP to find anything this hot. Woody 'n You and Blues are real intense. Sure the Trane Village Vanguard is great, buy them too. Sure the Five Spot is great, buy them as well. But don't avoid these. It would be a big hole that is not easily filled.