condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Insert and obi included.

A third route to the June 1964 Hilversum date, this one in the Japanese 195J series: Eric Dolphy with Misha Mengelberg, Jacques Schols and Han Bennink, radio-studio sound with everything in close, honest focus. Listen to what Dolphy does with "You Don't Know What Love Is" on flute - one of the definitive flute performances in all of jazz, tender and vertiginous at once, the instrument pushed to expressive places it has rarely visited since - and the album's legend explains itself completely before the famous closing words even arrive. The Japanese market has kept this session in beautiful print across the decades, edition after edition, each with its devotees, and comparing them is one of the collector's honest pleasures - the kind of harmless obsession this shop was built to serve.

Essential music in every one of them, and this 195J cut is a fine way in. The last studio hour, still fully alive.