The Complete Uppsala Concert

The Complete Uppsala Concert Artist: Eric Dolphy
Label: Gambit Spain
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 8436028692132
ASIN: B000A0BC20


Release Date: 2005-07-07

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Tracks:

  1. What Is This Thing Called Love
  2. 245
  3. Laura
  4. 52nd Street Theme
  5. Bag's Groove

Tracks:

  1. Out of Nowhere
  2. I'll Remember April
  3. 52nd Street Theme
  4. When Lights Are Low

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars A Treat for Completists, but............2006-03-03

A rather muddy recording of a largely mediocre performance, this is certainly not the place for curious newcomers to start checking out Eric Dolphy. My fellow completists and hardcore fans, however, will find that THE COMPLETE UPPSALA CONCERT offers a few worthwhile surprises, as well as the rare opportunity to hear exactly what its title states - a complete Eric Dolphy show.
As the liner notes in my own earlier edition point out, the four musicians on this date only met an hour or so before going onstage, which means that the normally explosive Dolphy energy is considerably restrained here. Slow, foursquare rhythms predominate, leaving jazz's most ebullient reedsman with little choice but to rein things in. This in itself might be rather interesting to those who already own most or all of Dolphy's other concert recordings, and the inclusion of tunes like "What Is This Thing Called Love" and "Bags' Groove" also marks the Uppsala performance as a unique entry in Dolphy's catalogue. Only one Dolphy composition ("245") is played here, but it's a monster - over twenty minutes long with a twelve-minute alto saxophone solo of consistent, if relatively controlled, inventive power.
For Dolphy fans, this is obviously a must-have disc; but the bootleg sound quality and mostly middling performances mean it probably won't be one they throw on very frequently. Underrecorded artists who died too young can do no wrong, however, so all I can say about Dolphy's performance here is that it's all right.

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