| Conversations | ||||
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| Released | 1963 | |||
| Recorded | July 1 & 3, 1963 | |||
| Studio | Music Maker's Studios, New York City, NY | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 33:50 | |||
| Label | FM FM-LP 308 | |||
| Producer | Alan Douglas | |||
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Conversations is a 1963 album by American jazz multi-instrumentalist, Eric Dolphy first released by the FM label and later reissued by Vee-Jay as The Eric Dolphy Memorial Album the following year.[1][2] The album was reissued on disc one of Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions, released in 2018 by Resonance Records.[3]
The music on Conversations was recorded during two dates arranged by Alan Douglas: a July 1, 1963 session featuring just Dolphy and bassist Richard Davis, and a July 3 session with nearly a dozen musicians.[4] The July 1 session produced "Alone Together" and two other tracks ("Come Sunday" and "Ode to Charlie Parker") which appeared on the album Iron Man.[4] An alternate version of "Alone Together", along with two previously-unreleased versions of a tune written by Roland Hanna titled "Muses for Richard Davis", also recorded that day, appeared on Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions.[5] The remaining three tracks on Conversations were recorded during the July 3 session, which also yielded the tracks "Iron Man", "Mandrake", and "Burning Spear", released on Iron Man.[4] Alternate takes of most of the July 3 pieces can be found on Musical Prophet. Alternate versions of five of the pieces recorded on both July dates also appeared on the 2013 Japanese release Muses.
The July sessions marked the recorded debut of trumpeter Woody Shaw, who was eighteen at the time.[6]
- ^ Both Sides Now: Vee-Jay Album Discography, Part 3: Jazz Series (1959-1978) accessed July 23, 2019
- ^ Jazzdisco: Eric Dolphy catalog accessed July 23, 2019
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. ""Eric Dolphy: Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions". AllMusic. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ^ a b c Himes, Geoffrey (January 25, 2019). "Eric Dolphy: It's All Out There Now". JazzTimes. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ^ "Eric Dolphy: Musical Prophet". Resonance Records. August 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ^ Brody, Richard (January 25, 2019). "How Eric Dolphy Sparked my Love of Jazz". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 28, 2020.