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Dolphy 64

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2008-06-16 04:01:58 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...Dolphy emerged from the thriving mid-20th-century Los Angeles jazz scene and became an important player in the groups of Chico Hamilton , John Coltrane , and Charles Mingus . A highly-skilled musician who played alto sax, bass clarinet, and flute, Dolphy created a bracing, unique sound forged in both bop and the avant-garde that one critic...
 
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Eric Dolphy Bio Coming From Penguin Jazz Guide Co-Author

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2008-05-20 21:41:04 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...Dolphy in June 2009. Dolphy died from diabetic complications at the age of 36 in Berlin in 1964; as well as being an invaluable part of groups led by Chico Hamilton , John Coltrane , and Charles Mingus , he made strong, progressive leader dates such as Out There , Conversations , and Out to Lunch (recorded just a few months before his death)....
 
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Eric Dolphy: Last Date (1964)

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2007-10-15 23:47:00 by souljazz in Great music! That's all...
...Dolphy (heard on alto, flute, and bass clarinet) backed by a top European rhythm section pianist Misha Mengelberg , bassist Jacques Schols , and drummer Han Bennink performing exciting versions of "Epistrophy," "You Don't Know What Love Is," and four of his originals. The innovative music points out what a giant loss Dolphy's premature death...
 
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Out To Lunch in the zone

2008-03-23 16:01:18 by Jazz beyond Jazz in Jazz Beyond Jazz
 
...Dolphy 's masterpiece at Merkin Concert Hall in NYC fulfilled the promise and hope of jazz repertory concerts, and proved the enduring, enriching quality of jazz-beyond-jazz compositions When trumpeter Russ Johnson took on the challenge of performing five works recorded by reeds and winds player Dolphy's brilliantly cast quintet in 1964,...
 
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Favorite Reissues and Historical Releases of 2007

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2007-12-31 19:32:51 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...Dolphy, Cornell 1964 . On the heels of the Coltrane-Monk and Parker-Gillespie concerts, another unearthed gem. Earlier in the year I wrote: This sounds like a Mingus group having fun not a word one normally associates with Mingus units, after imbibing the numerous narratives of stage tantrums, smashed instruments, punch-staggered sidemen,...
 
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Interview: Creed Taylor (Part 9)

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2008-07-18 08:25:45 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Dolphy] had a different view, though. So there were two versions. One had more of the tribal sound effects on Africa . Eric thought it should be the other way around. He thought Coltrane had gone too far with the effects JW: What did you think CT: I agreed with Coltrane, that all the African percussive effects were really great. I don't...
 
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Newton & Jang

2008-01-16 14:00:37 by Editor in Alibi Music
 
...Dolphy. Both are comfortable in a variety of musical idiomsfrom the African-American spirituals to traditional Chinese sorrow songs. This Saturday they combine in a duo concert in Corrales, continuing a musical conversation that began nearly 25 years ago in celebration of musics spiritual force. Finding a Friend A leading figure in the...
 
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Art Tatum... James Emery... Oliver Nelson... Amina Claudine Myers... Bessie Smith

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2008-03-21 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...Dolphy, who especially on these earlier sides always sounds in a different galaxy compared to everyone else. Wyands takes a nifty solo without slipping too much into Timmons-y cliches y'all. Nelson next, that wide-open vibrato to the fore. I always find his playing intriguing in that he doesn't play complex lines particularly (and how to...
 
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2008-04-12 09:44:00 by Tim Niland in Jazz & Blues Music Reviews
...Dolphy/Little tribues and took them our of the Library regularly: "Notably, in 1986, Blanchard and Harrison released two live tribute albums to another great jazz duo with Eric Dolphy & Booker Little Remembered Live at Sweet Basil, Vol. 1 and Fire Waltz: Eric Dolphy & Booker Little Remembered Live at Sweet Basil, Vol. 2. Featuring the late...
 
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Yusef Lateef... Francis 'Scrapper' Blackwell... Max Roach...

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2008-06-25 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...Dolphy, who takes some stunning solos on other tracks, is not featured either. Not that it matters this is a classic track from a classic album. Anger filed to a razor's edge of instrumental brilliance... More of this with some Dolphy soon, I think We are the bearers of the world's bright torch To light our civilization as we go No one...