'Out to Lunch!' was Eric Dolphy's only recording for Blue Note Records as a leader and was originally issued as BLP 4163 and BST 84163. Today it is generally considered one of the finest albums in the label's history, as well as one of the high points in 1960s avant-garde jazz and in Dolphy's discography.
Tony Williams had turned 18 a few months (75 days) before this recording, and is listed as "Anthony Williams" on the album cover.
A few months after recording this album, Dolphy went on a European tour with Charles Mingus. He died shortly thereafter of a diabetic shock.
Music
The title of the album's first track, "Hat and Beard", refers to Thelonious Monk; the song contains a famous percussive interlude featuring Tony Williams and Bobby Hutcherson. "Something Sweet, Something Tender" includes a noteworthy duet between Richard Davis on bass and Dolphy on bass clarinet. The third composition, "Gazzelloni", was named after classical flautist Severino Gazzelloni, but is otherwise the album's most conventional, bop-based theme. The second side features two long pieces for alto saxophone: the title track, and "Straight Up and Down", intended, according to the original liner notes, to evoke a drunken stagger.
In late 2013, two previously unissued performances were released on Toshiba EMI TYCJ-81013 in Japan. These are alternate takes of the two bass clarinet tunes "Hat and Beard", and "Something Sweet, Something Tender". No explanation for why these two tracks were not previously released is provided by Cuscuna in his brief notes.
Out to Lunch is a side-scrolling platformer that revolves around a French chef who has to try to collect ingredients for his dishes by going to different countries to catch them as they have escaped.
Plot
Pierre le Chef is touring the world preparing his dishes, but his ingredients have escaped and he must capture them. Pierre must watch out for bacteria, insects, and his arch-rival, Le Chef Noir. Noir, an evil chef jealous of Pierre's success, wants to ruin his career by releasing all of his gathered ingredients.
Gameplay
There is a single-player mode and a two-player alternating mode. In either mode, you play Pierre le Chef.
The objective is to capture a set number of ingredients before time runs out. Ingredients must be caught in a net and emptied into the level's cage. However, in every level, the player must first find the net before they can catch anything. Once the ingredients are placed in the cage, a door to the next level will appear somewhere in the stage. Along the way, the player will encounter germs and bacteria which, if the player gets touched by, loses a life. The player must also be wary of Chef le Noir, who will appear in certain levels to hinder the player's progress. Additionally, the player can pick up weapons like flour bags or hot sauce which can be used to stun ingredients and the bacteria. The player must guide Pierre le Chef through Switzerland, Greece, Jamaica (known in the game is the West Indies), Mexico, China and then France. Each country has 8 levels that the player has to navigate through. At the end of every country, the player plays a bonus game where they can collect bonus points for extra lives.
Hey! Gimme a break Going crazy, insane Got a load on my brain Can't stand it another day Broken down family ways Got a beat up Cadillac Slipping out now I won't be back There's a party down the road Got a girl, gonna take my load Turn up the music Turn it up loud Turn up the music Turn it up, turn it up loud Out to lunch Get up and dance Let yourself go into A rock ‘n' roll trance Out to lunch Get up and dance Let yourself go into A rock ‘n' roll trance Crazy mama taking pills Street legal dirty cheap thrills Good for nothing old man Living life in TV land You and I have better ways Rock ‘n' roll is here to stay Give it to me all night long Let it in till the break of dawn Turn up the music Turn it up loud Turn up the music Turn it up, turn it up loud Out to lunch Get up and dance Let yourself go into A rock ‘n' roll trance Out to lunch Get up and dance Let yourself go into A rock ‘n' roll trance Out to lunch Get up and dance Let yourself go into A rock ‘n' roll trance Out to lunch Get up and dance Let yourself go into A rock ‘n' roll trance Out to lunch Out to lunch Out to lunch
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