June 28, 2015 – 5:15 am

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ERIC DOLPHY

Paris 1964 [no label, 1CD]

Live at Le Chat Qui Pêche, Paris, France; June 11, 1964. Very good FM.

In 2010, we shared a version of this show (click here) featuring four tracks. Here is the complete (expanded to six tracks) and remastered version. Eric Dolphy was only 36 when he passed away in 1964 from insulin shock.

Thanks to Halowdance and woessner for sharing the tracks; and to Nobody for the remaster. Thanks to everyone for sharing at Dime.

Remaster notes:

It would have been Maestro Eric’s 87th birthday today (June 20, 2015), so I pulled this out, dusted it off, and sprinkled a bit of sonic pixie dustings around to get it really humming. I felt it sounded a little flat at the high end, so I improved this with the Sound Forge 9 Graphic Dynamics tool, as well as removing most of the vinyl transcription crackle from the solo passages in Tracks 05 and 06, sourced as they were from another tape in the original seed. I also tagged the files, corrected typos, and created new FLAC fingerprints… Of course, a hearty thanks to the original seeders Halowdance and woessner, without whose effort this remaster would not be possible.

There are no words to describe how awesome this set is - it’s the real LAST DATE, recorded nine days after that LP’s concert, and the last known recording of Eric in action - and how much Eric Dolphy means to me, Jazz, and music in general. Pull this down and bask in the glow of absolutely unparalleled and elegant artistry at its finest, and remember to remember this incredible man, born this day in 1928.

Click here for a write-up by Nobody.

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Lineage:

probably master FM reels > FLACs from Halowdance’s 2011 seed > Sound Forge 9 > remasterizzationals

Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (224 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.

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Track 01. Springtime 19:10 (32.2MB)

Track 02. 245 11:09 (18.7MB)

Track 03. GW 5:59 (10.1MB)

Track 04. Serene 7:41 (12.9MB)

Track 05. Ode to Charlie Parker 5:29 (9.2MB)

Track 06. Naima 15:12 (25.6MB)

65 mins

Lineup:

Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone (Tracks 02 & 03), bass clarinet (Tracks 01, 04 & 06), flute (Track 05)

Donald Byrd - trumpet

Nathan Davis - tenor saxophone

Jack Diéval - piano

Jacques Hess - bass

Franco Manzecchi - drums

Jacky Bambou - congas (Tracks 02, 03 & 06)

From 1960 to 1961, Eric Dolphy recorded both as leader and sideman for Prestige Rocords. Here are all those tracks on this nine-CD boxset, The Complete Prestige Recordings of Eric Dolphy. Click here to order the boxset.

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