Naima (Eric Dolphy album)

Naima
Studio album by
Released1987
RecordedNovember 1960 and June 11, 1964
GenreJazz
LabelJazzway / West Wind

Naima is an album by American musician Eric Dolphy, released in Europe in 1987 by the Jazzway label, and later by the West Wind label. Four of the five tracks were recorded on June 11, 1964 in a Paris studio for radio broadcast, nine days after the Hilversum session that yielded Last Date, and eighteen days before Dolphy's death. The remaining track, a duet with bassist Ron Carter, was recorded in New York City in November 1960, during a session which also produced three of the tracks released on Other Aspects.

The tracks recorded that day represent the last of Dolphy's commercially available recordings. Music from the same recording session was also issued on Unrealized Tapes, released in 1988, The Complete Last Recordings: In Hilversum & Paris 1964 (2010), and Paris '64 (2018).