Other Aspects

Artist: Eric Dolphy
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 077774804127
EAN: 0077774804127
ASIN: B000005H5X

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

Jim Crow
Inner Flight I
Dolphy'n
Inner Flight II
Improvisations & Tukras

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Customer Reviews:

Obscurities for Obscurists.......2006-03-20

As if tracking down Eric Dolphy albums weren't already enough of a safari, even the great reedsmith's few major-label releases are now starting to go out of print. To be fair, however, I can't imagine that Blue Note was moving all that many copies of this posthumous collection of Dolphy rarities (rather a redundant concept in itself); and unless one is an extremely devoted fan there's little reason to pay the intimidating prices being charged for used copies on this page.
Anyway, to get down to specifics, OTHER ASPECTS offers five tracks, recorded in 1960 and 1962, a couple of which at least do in fact probe lesser-known facets of Dolphy's music. This is certainly the case with the opener, "Jim Crow," a fifteen-and-a-half-minute Dolphy composition of no fixed genre on which the Maestro alternately plays all three of his major instruments (alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet) over a full rhythm section and alongside a moaning - and ultimately rather aggravating - female vocalist. Dating from 1962, the piece bears a loose relation to the various "third stream" efforts with which Dolphy was involved at the time, further examples of which are available on collections such as VINTAGE DOLPHY and the celebrated Gunther Schuller/John Lewis JAZZ ABSTRACTIONS album.
Three short pieces follow, all of a far more mainstream mold. "Inner Flight," a two-part a cappella flute recital, and "Dolphy'n," a duet between Dolphy on alto sax and Ron Carter on bass, are all well played and effective enough; but none would rank among Dolphy's best work, and with so much of his best work from this period readily available, they're of minimal interest to non-specialists.
Finally, "Improvisations and Tukras" presents Dolphy playing a repeated flute obligato behind a repeated non-verbal chant to the accompaniment of several Indian percussionists. Apparently intended as the backing for a traditional Subcontinental dance, it might be all right as listening material for two or three minutes; but after nearly eleven, one is more than ready to have done with it.
The liner notes tell us that Dolphy left these tapes with friends before departing with Charles Mingus for the 1964 European tour from which he would never return. We may therefore assume that he had plans for all of these pieces, though it's doubtful he saw them as a potential album. That they ultimately became one is to Blue Note's credit, since any new releases from Eric Dolphy are to be welcomed; but the deletion of OTHER ASPECTS from the label's catalogue is not quite a tragedy.

The other side of Eric Dolphy.......2001-03-31

The cultural and traditional value of the music on this album is much more clear than in any of Dolphy's other work. Like Rimsky-Korsakov pulling on Russian folk music and elaborating on it to create a national music, Dolphy reaches out to traditional African folk music, and expanding upon it with a visionary avant-garde perspective, creates a higher form of African jazz.

These recordings are like diamonds in the rough -- incomplete ideas that may have been expanded on with explosive results, if not for Dolphy's untimely death. Fans of 'Out to Lunch' and albums of the like might be a tad thrown off -- aside from Dolphy's characteristic playing, the music is far from his norm. But hearing Dolphy's explorations into music and his capacity for experimentation is priceless.

Not for the casual jazz listener, but for anyone who dares to hear something completely beyond the conventional.

Not Your "Usual" Dolphy.......2000-09-14

THis is not your usual Dolphy (the "usual Dolphy" is an oxymoron, anyway). These unusual takes were taped in New York, and given to a friend of Dolphy's before he left for his stint with Charles Mingus in 1964, dying just months later.

Left un-named, and boxed up while other Dolphy music surfaced, these takes offer an exploratory and introverted look at Dolphy toward the end of his life.

This is not comparable to "Out To Lunch," or any other Dolphy albums. It is much more sparse, and if you can believe it, more far out.

Strange vocal arrangement appear on a couple of tracks, as well as a wicked flute solo.

If you are a hard core Dolphite, you will dig.

Four stars.

dolphy disappointment.......2000-04-26

Suprisingly enough this cd was a disappointment.Despite high energy playing from Dolphy the vocal arrangements On "Jim Crow" and "Improvisations and Tukras" are tedious and at times almost unbearable. The other 3 tracks feature two that are flute solos and "Dolphy N" the best track that features Dolphy on alto and Ron Carter on bass. Overall the album is inconsistent and doesn't hold up next to Dolphy classics such as "Out To Lunch". Avoid.

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