Album Rating: 4.5

He was really talented, it's such a shame he passed away at a young age.

Album Rating: 5.0

bro that Peggy's Blue Sky Light solo is fire

Album Rating: 5.0

dat whole session is bless ty

A solo that could only be played with sunglasses fully on

Album Rating: 5.0

listen to Impressions vid, synergy feels unreal and dolphy solo is class

every time i come back to this like “i have this 4.5’d, really? that high?” and by the end im just like hmmm maybe i should 5 it.

Album Rating: 4.6

Oh hell yeah.

Album Rating: 5.0

A classic for the ages. He'd be as big as Coltrane if he got to live a full life.

Album Rating: 4.0

What a coincidence, was jamming this one yesterday, such a great album.

Hawks & Dewi - check Dolphy's OUT THERE if you haven't. His undisputed second-best imo, and generally sorely overlooked among his catalog.

(Million not excluding you, I see that you already have it rated )

Album Rating: 3.5

I have also neglected the notion that there are further Dolphy's to discover (thus far!)

how many of his other records is Bobby Hutcherson on? Dolphy is wild, but the vibraphone kills this in so many places for me

There is no vibraphone in OUT THERE. Cello and bass go absolutely wild a few times. OUTWARD BOUND is also great, esp. for something a little more traditional-hard-bop-ish before he started to experiment with non-conventional structures and long(er) winded solo/duet passages.

OUT TO LUNCH and IRON MAN are the only ones I've personally heard that have vibraphone (I think) but there might be more. I've not heard any records after this one, actually.

Also, Million's comment prompted me to wiki Dolphy's death - I knew he died young but 1. did not realize he was only 36, and further 2. that he never used alcohol or drugs and essentially died from undiagnosed diabetes. Such a fucking shame.

Really hate that my gut reaction reading that was 36 isn't that young for a jazz musician :[
Still tragically young, but that's a good ten years on the Clifford Browns and Fats Navarros of the world, and two on Bird. Way too many stories in that vein
Will hit Outward Bound next time I'm on a jazz binge (soon - my pendulum is swinging back from an ambient bender) and see what cooks

Album Rating: 5.0

One thing that stood out to me about Miles' autobiography is how angry he was about the senselessness of Dolphy's death, w/the doctors just assuming he was high because he was a black jazz musician until it was too late

Yeah truly fucking nauseating to think that a simple blood test could've essentially saved his life.