Hat and Beard

Eric Dolphy · 1964

Context

Composition by Eric Dolphy that opens Out to Lunch! (Blue Note, August 1964), recorded on 25 February 1964 at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs. The title refers to Thelonious Monk; Dolphy plays bass clarinet, with a percussive interlude by Tony Williams and Bobby Hutcherson.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Free jazz, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Free jazz: Tristano School, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Modal.

By the same artist

• Out to Lunch (1964)
• Epistrophy (Eric Dolphy) (1964)
• Hypochristmutreefuzz (1964)
• South Street Exit (1964)
• Gazzelloni (1964)
• Out There (1960)

Sources

• EN: Out to Lunch!

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