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Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. Primarily an alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and flautist, [1] Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence during the same era.
Oct 21, 2021 · Along with Coltrane and Coleman, Eric Dolphy played a significant role in influencing the development of the avant-garde in jazz in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He featured on Coleman’s seminal Free Jazz from 1960, and toured and recorded extensively with both Mingus and Coltrane.
Jun 20, 2024 · For a tragically brief period in the early 1960s, Eric Dolphy erupted like lightning across the jazz horizon, playing with a startling, jagged, incandescent fervor that made him...
Aug 7, 2020 · Jazz musicians had always encountered widespread racism, but the case of Dolphy brings this to a whole other level, as such stereotyping literally left him for dead. While touring in West Berlin, he collapsed into a diabetic coma and was taken to hospital.
Jan 25, 2019 · Richard Brody writes about the jazz musician Eric Dolphy, whose work emerged from the bebop revolution of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell then opened it into a new dimension.
Jun 25, 2024 · Eric Dolphy (born June 20, 1928, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died June 29, 1964, West Berlin, West Germany [now Berlin, Germany]) was an American jazz musician, a virtuoso improviser on woodwinds and a major influence on free jazz.
Feb 25, 2014 · Eric Dolphy's creativity was exploding early in 1964, and he was finding more players who could keep up. Out to Lunch is free and focused, dissonant and catchy, wide open and swinging all...
Oct 15, 2021 · Friday, October 15, 2021. Eric Dolphy's death, aged 36 on 29 June 1964, cut short a rare and highly original talent that, in less than four years, had seen him record a number of definitive jazz albums. Stuart Nicholson recommends five of Dolphy's finest moments on record.
Dec 19, 2018 · August 1, 2001 • Avant-garde and sometimes controversial, Eric Dolphy was a master of several instruments. He was one of the first musicians to record unaccompanied horn solos, and largely ...
Aug 1, 2001 · Avant-garde and sometimes controversial, Eric Dolphy was a master of several instruments. He was one of the first musicians to record unaccompanied horn solos, and largely introduced the bass...
