Out To Lunch! (studio album)
by Eric Dolphy
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Out To Lunch! is ranked as the best album by Eric Dolphy.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/16/2025 02:21 | colabunga | 586 | 80/100 |
| ! | 12/11/2025 03:03 | Exist-en-ciel | 4,244 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/08/2025 02:01 | JoshN125 | 163 | 68/100 |
| ! | 12/03/2025 21:25 | mgreg50 | 38 | 86/100 |
| ! | 10/10/2025 08:06 |  melisandre | 149 | 89/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.4/100, a mean average of 78.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.5.
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I'm not a big fan of experimental jazz, but this one was not too bad, and this guy definitely had talent.
There is some interesting experimentation on this album but I don't think it completely comes together and it struggles with remaining consistent. There are some great moments of instrumentation on here and a few of the compositions are fantastic. I do also enjoy the way he switches the leading instrument multiple times throughout the record as it keeps the music fresh and demonstrates the quality Dolphy has on each one. My favourite is probably the bass clarinet on Something Sweet, Something Tender. However, the album can feel confused at times and like there is too much going on so it clouds the sound they are going for. Furthermore, a few of the backing instrumentalists aren't fantastic and they do give some poor performances. I think that is best displayed on the title track with it sounding a bit chaotic. Overall, there is some great stuff to find on here but that cannot be maintained for the whole release and I think the record is really carried by Eric Dolphy.
Jboy56 05/02/2022 08:52 | #284866
Very original and eternal.
2nd-Impressions 12/14/2020 18:37 | #262700
50/100
Best track: Something Sweet
Worst track: Hat and Beard
VictorVale 11/29/2020 16:25 | #261640
Fantástico! Mto da vanguarda paulistana veio daqui!
Kaduken 08/03/2019 13:44 | #240719
I must say it didn’t really sit with me. Definitely some interesting things going on in terms of structure, but at a certain point the dissonance becomes too much to parse through
Fischman 01/09/2019 03:02 | #229356
Seminal jazz/sax album. Excellent composition and playing. Music marvelously has one foot in each world: traditional and progressive, and really pulls out off.
Mother, why is he naked? (and why do I dig the track with the lowest rating..)
JulianR 03/01/2018 20:54 | #209875
Definitely ot what I was expecting, but an interesting listen nonetheless. I thought this was some sort of hard-bop album, but its quite the avante-garde/free jazz record instead. I'm not really digging the vibraphone sound right now, but I'm sure it will grow on me
Dolphy can do anything on this record. A great place to start if you're looking to get into jazz.
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