I agree with Jim Hutchison: this is a more meditative and introspective version ...like a sort of "chamber music" mood, just saying. It sounds (a bit) like "Warm Canto", another pearl of this Dolphy's sessions, or like Joe Henderson's "Lazy afternoon", or the incipit of Mingus' "Goodbye Pork Pie hat", in a live version with Gerry Mulligan too (you can see on Tube)... There is a common feeling, for me, in these and in other pieces of music..("Nirvana", with Bill Evans and Herbie Mann...Duke Pearson's "Friday's child"...and l'incipit of "Django", written by John Lewis, in the super version of Grant Green/Henderson/Pearson/ in "Idle moments", a great LP. Everyone, perhaps, always seeks a particular state of mind in music..
Tarik Saeed: "Stolen Moments," after all, is a Nelson tune! Dolphy is one of the great musicians with Nelson on his original recording of the song. Dolphy's version is indeed a bit slower and more to my liking as well. But I can't forget that this tune came out of nelson's head! Such a great composer and arranger he was. I forget who it was who wrote the lyrics to Nelson's Stolen Moments ( I think it was...Mark Murphy). Anyway, the great group.."New York Voices" did a fantastic vocal arrangement of it as well. I have not heard an arrangement of this song that I don't like!
I enjoy both renditions. This one is my best but I appreciate Oliver’s solo too. Oliver adds a technical/ structural aspect where’s Eddie is raw and uncut. Oliver plays like his books are written, masterfully.
