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Jan 25, 2019 · Dolphy also plays several duets with the bassist Richard Davis that recall his duets with Mingus, and he plays a brief, scintillating unaccompanied piece for alto (“ Love Me ,” which is also...
Oct 21, 2021 · Evidence of Dolphy’s mastery of the flute and bass clarinet can be heard on a series of duets with bassist Richard Davis. In this most musically demanding of contexts, he performs ‘Ode to Charle Parker’ on flute and ‘Alone Together’, ‘Come Sunday’ and ‘Muses’ on bass clarinet, while ‘Love Me’ is a solo ...
Richard Davis (April 15, 1930 – September 6, 2023) was an American jazz bassist. Among his best-known contributions to the albums of others are Eric Dolphy 's Out to Lunch! , Andrew Hill 's Point of Departure , and Van Morrison 's Astral Weeks , of which critic Greil Marcus wrote (in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock ...
In 2014, Seed Artists produced Eric Dolphy: Freedom of Sound. A celebration of the maverick musician on the 50th anniversary of his passing. More than 40 artists over two nights, from Richard Davis, Andrew Cyrille and Howard Johnson to Vernon Reid, Angelica Sanchez, Don Byron.
On June 1 & 2, in partnership with School of Jazz and Contemporary Music at The New School College of Performing Arts, and United Artists for Humanity, nearly 40 brilliant artists will celebrate Dolphy’s singular voice from novel perspectives–in their own voices, not merely parroting his sound.
When Davis completes his part with violin-like staccato sweeps at the end of “Muses for Richard Davis (Previously Unissued 1” in response to a high-pitched multiphonics from Dolphy, it’s clear that had he wished Davis could easily have pursued more exploratory improvising.
Richard Davis: Guy walks up to me, and he said, "Mr. Davis?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "My name is Eric Dolphy." He said, "Are you working this weekend?" I said, "No." He said, "Now you are." Out to Lunch HOT fades under into Something Sweet, Something Tender
