In his short life of only 36 years, jazz musician and band leader Eric Dolphy made quite a mark on the world of jazz. He was lauded for his skills on the alto saxophone, bass clarinet, and the flute, ...
To modern jazz and improvised music listeners, the bass clarinet has ceased to be a strange sight. Most attribute the instrument's popularity to Eric Dolphy, which, if one ignores Harry Carney or ...
Newly-remastered SACD reissues of Eric Dolphy's albums for the Prestige label mark the 90th anniversary of his birth. The recording sessions that Eric Dolphy led in the last four years of his life ...
Few jazz musicians, if any, have made an instrument so thoroughly their own as did Eric Dolphy with the bass clarinet. A wondrously gifted alto saxophonist with a distinctive wailing, mercurial tone, ...
A special concert was performed Monday night at the Ford Theater in Hollywood. It was part of the Angel City Jazz Fest. Local jazz master Bennie Maupin and his group brought to life music from Los ...
Dolphy’s only recording as a leader for Blue Note Records, “Out to Lunch!”, featured a dream team lineup with Dolphy, on alto, flute and bass clarinet, joined by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, ...
To say that Eric Dolphy died in his prime would be a massive understatement. While on tour in Berlin in June 1964, the multi-instrumental virtuoso — whose solos on alto saxophone, bass clarinet and ...
Seven months before his 1964 masterwork Out to Lunch! Dolphy recorded a pair of sessions with producer Alan Douglas. Critic Kevin Whitehead says this reissue is long overdue. This is FRESH AIR. In ...
Eric Dolphy (1928-1964) is a jazz great who rarely led a band. The multi-instrumentalist, who was a virtuoso on alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet, is renowned for his work in ensembles led by ...
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