At the Five Spot


At the Five Spot volumes one and two is a pair of jazz albums documenting one night from the end of Eric Dolphy and Booker Little's two-week residency at the Five Spot in New York. This was the only night to be recorded; the engineer was Rudy Van Gelder.
A third volume from this session was released, titled Memorial Album, containing "Number Eight " and "Booker's Waltz". These two tracks were later released on the Rudy Van Gelder remaster of Volume 2.
All three volumes were reissued, without alternate takes, as at triple LP under the title The Great Concert of Eric Dolphy. Two other tracks, Mal Waldron's "Status Seeking" and Dolphy's solo rendition of Billie Holiday's "God Bless The Child", were released on the Dolphy compilation Here and There. Dolphy and Little were backed by a rhythm section consisting of pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Ed Blackwell.
Dolphy's composition "The Prophet" is a tribute to the artist Richard Jennings, who had designed the covers of Dolphy's earlier albums, Outward Bound and Out There.

Setlist

  1. "Status Seeking"
  2. "God Bless the Child"
  3. "Aggression"
  4. "Like Someone in Love"
  5. "Fire Waltz"
  6. "Bee Vamp"
  7. "The Prophet"
  8. "Number Eight "
  9. "Booker's Waltz"

    Track listing

Volume one

  1. "Fire Waltz" – 13:44
  2. "Bee Vamp" – 12:30
  3. "The Prophet" – 21:22
  4. "Bee Vamp" – 9:27

    Volume two

  5. "Aggression" – 17:21
  6. "Like Someone in Love" – 19:58
  7. "Number Eight " – 15:33
  8. "Booker's Waltz" – 14:39

    Memorial Album

  9. "Number Eight " - 15:33
  10. "Booker's Waltz" - 14:39

    Personnel