Out to Lunch!

Out to Lunch!
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1964 (1964-08)
RecordedFebruary 25, 1964
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreAvant-garde jazz
Length42:31
LabelBlue Note
ProducerAlfred Lion
Eric Dolphy chronology
Conversations
(1963)
Out to Lunch!
(1964)
Last Date
(1964)

Out to Lunch! is a 1964 album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy. His only recording on Blue Note as a leader, it was issued as BLP 4163 and BST 84163. Featuring Dolphy in a quintet with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Tony Williams, it is considered by critics as one of the finest albums issued on Blue Note and one of the high points of 1960s avant-garde jazz. The album cover designed by Reid Miles features a photo of a "Will Be Back" sign displayed in a shop window showing a seven-handed clock.