Only issued for the first time in 1990, this is actually the earliest evidence of Dolphy’s brief 1961 visit to Germany and Scandinavia, between working with Coltrane at the Village Gate in August and again in Monterey and San Francisco late September. Undertaken with the encouragement of radio producer/writer Joachim-Ernst Berendt, it involved performing with locally-based musicians, including expatriate Americans such as the rhythm-section and particularly the underrated Benny Bailey. His presence on the quintet numbers differentiates this from other recordings made on the same trip, notably for Prestige, which utilise a similar mainstream repertoire (including ‘I’ll Remember April’ and Dolphy’s bluesy original ‘The Meeting’, otherwise known as ‘245’ from the album Outward Bound). Eric is by far the most prominent soloist, doing ‘When Lights Are Low’ (on bass-clarinet) and ‘Hi-Fly’ (flute) with just bass and drums, and ‘God Bless The Child’ as a three-and-a-half minute unaccompanied bass-clarinet solo. He takes several typical flights of fancy, despite the almost jam-session situation, and delivers potent lessons on how he balanced ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ playing.