Eric Dolphy With Booker Little - Far Cry (1960)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer Eric Dolphy With Booker Little Title Far Cry Length 48:21 Discs: 1 Tracks: 8 Format CD Packaging Jewel Case Label New Jazz Cat. Number OJCCD 400-2 Style Free/Avant Jazz Rating N/A Recorded 1960-12-21  at  Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Musicians	Credits
Eric Dolphy alto sax, bass clarinet, flute Booker Little trumpet Jaki Byard piano Ron Carter bass Roy Haynes drums	Engineer Phil De Lancie

Track list

01 Mrs.Parker Of K.C. (Bird's Mother) (Byard) 08:03 02 Ode To Charlie Parker (Byard) 08:45 03 Far Cry (Dolphy) 03:55 04 Miss Ann (Dolphy) 04:18 05 Left Alone (Holiday/Waldron) 06:42 06 Tenderly (Gross/Lawrence) 04:20 07 It's Magic (Cahn/Styne) 05:41 08 Serene (Dolphy) 06:37

Notes

AMG Review by Al Campbell (4 1/2): Charlie Parker's influence permeates this 1960 session. Beyond the obvious acknowledgment on song titles ("Mrs. Parker of K.C. ['Bird's Mother']" and "Ode to Charlie Parker"), his restless spirit is utilized as a guiding light for breaking bebop molds. Far Cry finds multi-reedist Eric Dolphy in a transitional phase, relinquishing Parker's governing universal impact and diving into the next controversial phase that critics began calling "anti-jazz." On this date Booker Little's lyrical trumpet and Jackie Byard's confident grasp of multiple piano styles (though both steeped in hard bop) were sympathetic to the burgeoning "avant-garde" approach that Dolphy displays, albeit sparingly, on this session. Far Cry contains the initial performance of Dolphy's future jazz classic "Miss Ann," along with his first recorded solo alto sax performance on "Tenderly," in which Dolphy bridges the gap between the solo saxophone performances of Coleman Hawkins and Anthony Braxton.