#GreatAlbums1960s - #EricDolphy – Out to Lunch! (1964). Kicking rules aside, Dolphy spars with Bobby Hutcherson’s vibraphone and Freddie Hubbard’s trumpet as hard bop textures step into the realm of free jazz. The cloak-and-dagger groove of “Hat and Beard” and “Something Sweet, Something Tender” keep your feet on solid ground, although passages of near atonality peppering the LP reflect Dolphy’s work with Ornette Coleman. Dolphy’s last before diabetes took his life in Berlin.

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