condition (record/cover): VG+ (one mark producing clicks for a few seconds) / EX+

June 1961: Eric Dolphy and Ron Carter co-billed, with Carter's cello again changing the room's whole geometry - plus Mal Waldron and a rhythm team navigating textures nobody had quite attempted before. Where? extends the chamber experiments of Out There into new corners: "Bass Duet" puts two low strings in open conversation, an idea decades ahead of its moment, and Dolphy's clarinet work here - the straight clarinet, his least documented voice - is among his most exposed and beautiful on record, reason alone for the session's cult standing. The Prestige dates of 1960-61 were a laboratory disguised as a contract obligation, and this is one of the laboratory's most interesting experiments: a record whose instrumental combinations still sound like almost nobody has tried them since, because almost nobody has.

US Prestige pressing of a genuine connoisseur's favorite - the kind of session that deepens the more of the surrounding discography you know.