Complete At Newport 1958

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All known recordings by Gerry Mulligan and the Chico Hamilton Quintet with Eric Dolphy at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.
Compiled here for the first time ever on a single CD!!!

This set presents all of the known recordings by Gerry Mulligan (featured both in his celebrated piano-less quartet with Art Farmer and with the Marian McPartland trio) and the Chico Hamilton Quintet with Eric Dolphy at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. The event was also unique in that portions of the concerts were filmed and edited into Bert Stern's movie feature Jazz on a Summer's Day. As usual, many formations appeared at the festival, and some of the music was also professionally recorded and subsequently issued (as is the case with the performances by the Miles Davis Sextet and the Dave Brubeck Quartet). Some other performances were captured by radio devices and appeared many years later on obscure LPs and CDs now out of print. Sound quality, as can be imagined, differs from source to source. Together with the Mulligan-Farmer music, the five tunes known to be recorded by the Chico Hamilton Quintet with Eric Dolphy at Newport that year are also reunited here for the first time ever on a single set. They had previously appeared on three different long out of print issues. These tracks are valuable, as they mark the first existing performances ever by Hamilton and Dolphy playing together.