{"product_id":"eric-dolphy-out-to-lunch-blue-note-essentials-series-lp","title":"Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch! (Blue Note Essentials Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlue Note Essentials Series - 140 Gram Vinyl\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEric Dolphy booked one session as a leader for Blue Note. On February 25, 1964 he brought Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, Richard Davis on bass and the eighteen-year-old Tony Williams on drums into Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with Alfred Lion producing, and cut five of his own compositions. Dolphy plays alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet across them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe record reached shops in August 1964 as BLP 4163. By then Dolphy had died in West Berlin on June 29, at thirty-six. It remains the only Blue Note album issued under his own name. Hutcherson's vibraphone occupies the chair a piano would normally take, which leaves the harmony open underneath the horns and accounts for the suspended quality the quintet carries from the Monk tribute that opens the record, \"Hat and Beard,\" through to the closing \"Straight Up and Down.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Penguin Guide to Jazz placed the album in its Core Collection at a perfect score. Reid Miles designed and photographed the sleeve - the shuttered storefront, the clock, the \"WILL BE BACK\" card - and A. B. Spellman wrote the original liner notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlue Note launched the Essentials Series on International Jazz Day 2026 to return catalogue titles to a lower price. Essentials pressings are mastered from hi-resolution digital masters and pressed on 140 gram vinyl, which makes them a different proposition from the label's all-analog Classic Vinyl and Tone Poet editions of the same albums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide A\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHat and Beard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomething Sweet, Something Tender\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGazzelloni\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide B\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col start=\"4\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOut to Lunch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStraight Up and Down\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eComplete the Collection\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 Eric Dolphy titles at Evergreen Vinyl:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/eric-dolphy-far-cry\"\u003eFar Cry\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/eric-dolphy-the-complete-uppsala-concert-vol-1\"\u003eThe Complete Uppsala Concert Vol. 1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 199957966801\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Blue Note Records\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.25.26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Blue Note Records","offers":[{"title":"NEW \/ NEW","offer_id":48226597503134,"sku":"EVP-2710FB61-NEW-NEW-NONE0000","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/8801\/1422\/files\/ED_OTL_LP_BlueNote_STKR-00199957966801_ProductShot.png?v=1790141281","url":"https:\/\/evergreenvinyl.com\/products\/eric-dolphy-out-to-lunch-blue-note-essentials-series-lp","provider":"Evergreen Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}