Eric Dolphy
Text in englischer Sprache verfügbarEric Dolphy was a true original with his own distinctive styles on alto, flute, and bass clarinet. His music fell into the "avant-garde" category yet he did not discard chordal improvisation altogether (although the relationship of his notes to the chords was often pretty abstract). While most of the other "free jazz" players sounded very serious in their playing, Dolphy's solos often came across as ecstatic and exuberant. His improvisations utilized very wide intervals, a variety of nonmusical speechlike sounds, and its own logic. Although the alto was his main axe, Dolphy was the first flutist to move beyond bop (influencing James Newton) and he largely introduced the bass clarinet to jazz as a solo instrument. He was also one of the first (after Coleman Hawkins) to record unaccompanied horn solos, preceding Anthony Braxton by five years. Eric Dolphy first recorded while with Roy Porter & His Orchestra (1948-1950) in Los Angeles, he was in the Army for two years, and he then played in obscurity in L.A. until he joined the Chico Hamilton Quintet in 1958. In 1959 he settled in New York and was soon a member of the Charles Mingus Quartet. By 1960 Dolphy was recording regularly as a leader for Prestige and gaining attention for his work with Mingus, but throughout his short career he had difficulty gaining steady work due to his very advanced style. Dolphy recorded quite a bit during 1960-1961, including three albums cut at the Five Spot while with trumpeter Booker Little, Free Jazz with Ornette Coleman, sessions with Max Roach, and some European dates. Late in 1961 Dolphy was part of the John Coltrane Quintet; their engagement at the Village Vanguard caused conservative critics to try to smear them as playing "anti-jazz" due to the lengthy and very free solos. During 1962-1963 Dolphy played third stream music with Gunther Schuller and Orchestra U.S.A., and gigged all too rarely with his own group. In 1964 he recorded his classic Out to Lunch for Blue Note and traveled to Europe with the Charles Mingus Sextet (which was arguably the bassist's most exciting band, as shown on The Great Concert of Charles Mingus). After he chose to stay in Europe, Dolphy had a few gigs but then died suddenly from a diabetic coma at the age of 36, a major loss. Virtually all of Eric Dolphy's recordings are in print, including a nine-CD box set of all of his Prestige sessions. In addition, Dolphy can be seen on film with John Coltrane (included on The Coltrane Legacy) and with Mingus from 1964 on a video released by Shanachie.
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Eric Dolphy was a true original with his own distinctive styles on alto, flute, and bass clarinet. His music fell into the "avant-garde" category yet he did not discard chordal improvisation altogether (although the relationship of his notes to the chords was often pretty abstract). While most of the other "free jazz" players sounded very serious in their playing, Dolphy's solos often came across as ecstatic and exuberant. His improvisations utilized very wide intervals, a variety of nonmusical speechlike sounds, and its own logic. Although the alto was his main axe, Dolphy was the first flutist to move beyond bop (influencing James Newton) and he largely introduced the bass clarinet to jazz as a solo instrument. He was also one of the first (after Coleman Hawkins) to record unaccompanied horn solos, preceding Anthony Braxton by five years.
Eric Dolphy first recorded while with Roy Porter & His Orchestra (1948-1950) in Los Angeles, he was in the Army for two years, and he then played in obscurity in L.A. until he joined the Chico Hamilton Quintet in 1958. In 1959 he settled in New York and was soon a member of the Charles Mingus Quartet. By 1960 Dolphy was recording regularly as a leader for Prestige and gaining attention for his work with Mingus, but throughout his short career he had difficulty gaining steady work due to his very advanced style. Dolphy recorded quite a bit during 1960-1961, including three albums cut at the Five Spot while with trumpeter Booker Little, Free Jazz with Ornette Coleman, sessions with Max Roach, and some European dates.
Late in 1961 Dolphy was part of the John Coltrane Quintet; their engagement at the Village Vanguard caused conservative critics to try to smear them as playing "anti-jazz" due to the lengthy and very free solos. During 1962-1963 Dolphy played third stream music with Gunther Schuller and Orchestra U.S.A., and gigged all too rarely with his own group. In 1964 he recorded his classic Out to Lunch for Blue Note and traveled to Europe with the Charles Mingus Sextet (which was arguably the bassist's most exciting band, as shown on The Great Concert of Charles Mingus). After he chose to stay in Europe, Dolphy had a few gigs but then died suddenly from a diabetic coma at the age of 36, a major loss.
Virtually all of Eric Dolphy's recordings are in print, including a nine-CD box set of all of his Prestige sessions. In addition, Dolphy can be seen on film with John Coltrane (included on The Coltrane Legacy) and with Mingus from 1964 on a video released by Shanachie.
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Twelve Classic Albums: 1959 - 1962
Eric Dolphy
Free Jazz & Avantgarde - Erschienen bei Enlightenment am 28.06.2017
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Out To Lunch!
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Blue Note Records am 01.01.2013
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At the Five Spot, Vol. 1 (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster)
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Prestige am 01.01.2008
After having left the ensemble of Charles Mingus and upon working with John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy formed a short-lived but potent quintet with trumpet ...
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Iron Man
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Fresh Sound Records am 01.01.1963
Choc du Monde de la MusiqueThe companion piece to Conversations (recorded at the same mid-1963 sessions with producer Alan Douglas), Iron Man is every bit as essential and strik ...
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Out There (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster)
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Prestige am 15.08.1960
The follow-up album to Outward Bound, Eric Dolphy's second effort for the Prestige/New Jazz label (and later remastered by Rudy Van Gelder) was equall ...
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Conversations (Eric Dolphy)
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Celluloid am 01.01.1963
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Charles Mingus In Europe (Live)
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Enja Horst Weber am 26.04.1964
Qobuz RéférenceThis LP features the Charles Mingus Quintet during their European tour in 1964. Bassist Mingus, Eric Dolphy (on alto, bass clarinet, and flute), tenor ...
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Far Cry (Album Version)
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Prestige am 21.12.1960
Charlie Parker's influence permeates this 1960 session. Beyond the obvious acknowledgment on song titles ("Mrs. Parker of K.C. ['Bird's Mother']" and ...
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Out There (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster)
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Prestige am 15.08.1960
The follow-up album to Outward Bound, Eric Dolphy's second effort for the Prestige/New Jazz label (and later remastered by Rudy Van Gelder) was equall ...
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Out To Lunch! (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Blue Note Records am 01.02.1964
Out to Lunch stands as Eric Dolphy's magnum opus, an absolute pinnacle of avant-garde jazz in any form or era. Its rhythmic complexity was perhaps unr ...
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The Illinois Concert
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Blue Note Records am 01.01.1963
The 1999 discovery of a previously unknown 1963 concert by Eric Dolphy makes it one of the finds of the decade. Taped for broadcast at the University ...
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Conversations
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Fresh Sound Records am 01.01.1963
In 1963 (probably July, though some sources place the dates in May or June), Eric Dolphy recorded some sessions in New York with producer Alan Douglas ...
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Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions
Eric Dolphy
Free Jazz & Avantgarde - Erschienen bei Resonance Records am 25.01.2019
Pitchfork: Best New ReissueResonance Records ist ein Experte, wenn es sich um Archive von hoher Qualität handelt, und so hat er nun einen bedeutenden Schatz von Eric Dolphy ans ...
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Outward Bound (RVG Remaster)
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Prestige am 08.05.2019
Jazzwise Five-star reviewThe late multi-reed player/composer Eric Dolphy, one of the most pivotal figures in jazz, was a fiercely lyrical, imaginative musician at the forefron ...
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At the Five Spot, Vol. 2 (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster)
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Prestige am 01.01.2009
This is the second of three sets that document the Eric Dolphy/Booker Little quintet's playing at the Five Spot (the third volume is titled Memorial A ...
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Out There (Remastered)
Eric Dolphy
Modern Jazz - Erschienen bei RevOla am 15.10.2021
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Iron Man
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei BCD - 3RDP am 01.01.1963
The companion piece to Conversations (recorded at the same mid-1963 sessions with producer Alan Douglas), Iron Man is every bit as essential and strik ...
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At the Five Spot, Vol. 2 [Rudy Van Gelder Remaster]
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Prestige am 01.01.2009
This is the second of three sets that document the Eric Dolphy/Booker Little quintet's playing at the Five Spot (the third volume is titled Memorial A ...
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At the Five Spot. Complete Edition
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Jazz Musts am 02.01.2013
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Conversations
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei BCD - 3RDP am 01.01.1963
In 1963 (probably July, though some sources place the dates in May or June), Eric Dolphy recorded some sessions in New York with producer Alan Douglas ...
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Berlin Concerts
Eric Dolphy
Jazz - Erschienen bei Enja Horst Weber am 30.08.1961
This two-LP set features the great multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy mostly stretching out on standards, coming up with very original statements on su ...
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