OutToLunch!
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To me one of the greatest (if not the greatest) the improviser that ever was. His playing is completely unparalleled; there never was and will never be another like him. His music gets me real deep, easily one of my favorite musicians, the master of alto sax, bass clarinet, and flute. He is definitely not for everyone (Miles certainly didn't like his playing), and he's much less known as others like Coltrane or Ornette (though the stuff he did with Coltrane is really something special).
I could recommend everything he has ever recorded, but I am just a Dolphy fanatic, so for those who are unfamiliar I'd suggest picking up Outward Bound and Out To Lunch! first; his first and last dates as leader. For a killer show with Coltrane get the Complete 1961 Copenhagen Concert, which has the only appearance of "Delilah" in either of the horn players' discographies. Conversations and Iron Man are two great albums taken from the same session that I think are good introductions to his music as well.
Here's a great Dolphy site if anyone is interested: http://adale.org/Eric.html
I could recommend everything he has ever recorded, but I am just a Dolphy fanatic, so for those who are unfamiliar I'd suggest picking up Outward Bound and Out To Lunch! first; his first and last dates as leader. For a killer show with Coltrane get the Complete 1961 Copenhagen Concert, which has the only appearance of "Delilah" in either of the horn players' discographies. Conversations and Iron Man are two great albums taken from the same session that I think are good introductions to his music as well.
Here's a great Dolphy site if anyone is interested: http://adale.org/Eric.html