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Eric Dolphy

Born: June 20, 1928

Eric Allan Dolphy was a jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet.

Dolphy was one of several groundbreaking jazz alto players to rise to prominence in the 1960s. He was also the first important bass clarinet soloist in jazz, and among the earliest significant flute soloists; he is arguably the greatest jazz improviser on either instrument. On early recordings, he occasionally played traditional B-flat soprano clarinet. His improvisational style was characterized by a near volcanic flow of ideas, utilizing wide intervals based largely on the 12-tone scale, in addition to using an array of animal- like effects which almost made his instruments speak. Although Dolphy's work is sometimes classified as free jazz, his compositions and solos had a logic uncharacteristic of many other free jazz musicians of the day; even as such, he was definitively avant-garde. In the years after his death his music was more aptly described as being "too out to be in and too in to be out."

John Daversa, Eric Dolphy, and Jamie Baum

by Jerome Wilson
January 1, 2025

This program from June 2021 features music from John Daversa, Fred Hersch, Eric Dolphy, Jakob Bro)), and {{Jamie Baum. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 0:00 Thelonious Monk “Monk's Mood" from Thelonious Himself (Riverside) 1:02 The ...

Free Jazz to Ornette! Revisited

By Ornette Coleman

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2024
Track listing: Free Jazz; W.R.U.; T. & T.: C. & D.: R.P.D.D.

Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus To Pre Bird Revisited

By Charles Mingus

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2024
Track listing: Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus: Folk Forms No. 1; Original Faubus Fables; What Love; All The Things You Could Be By Now If Simund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother. Pre-Bird: Take The A Train; Prayer For Passive Resistance; Eclipse; Mingus Fingus No. 2; Weird Nightmare; Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me; Bemoanable Lady; Half-Mast Inhibition.

Riflettori su Manuel Caliumi

by Angelo Leonardi
December 23, 2024

Parliamo con uno dei sassofonisti italiani più in vista della sua generazione, già segnalato dalla stampa specializzata e molto richiesto dai gruppi più innovativi. Fondamentale è la sua presenza nel quartetto Emong di Michele Bonifati e nel Blend 3 di Andrea Grossi, con cui ha inciso album di alto spessore, ottenendo eccellenti valutazioni critiche. In occasione ...

Alexander Hawkins: La Musica è uno Spazio generoso

by Giuseppe Segala
November 25, 2024

Nato a Oxford nel 1981, Alexander Hawkins è musicista di punta della propria generazione e della scena contemporanea internazionale. Persona di grande disponibilità e affabilità, è tra i pochissimi musicisti che nella sua fascia di età si confrontano in modo congruo al temperamento dei pionieri che dagli anni Sessanta in poi si sono avvicendati sulla scena ...

Remembering Roy Haynes: Modern Jazz Giant

by Ian Patterson
November 19, 2024

When Roy Haynes sat down at the tiny kit on the stage of the Everyman Theatre, during the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival in 2005, he shook his head ruefully and said, “Man, I feel like a midget!" Rising above the audience laughter, somewhere in the depths of the theatre, a voice replied, “Roy, you're a giant!" ...

Roy Haynes: Still Lighting It Up

by Chris M. Slawecki
November 15, 2024

This article was first published on All About Jazz in June 1997. Drummer Roy Haynes isn't just cool--he's cooooolllll. In conversation, Roy Haynes is languid and relaxed yet full of fire, yet playful, mysterious and serious. Similarly, his music--and he's played alongside the best--is simultaneously passionate and precise, free-swinging and loose, but ...

JazzFest Berlin 2024

by John Sharpe
November 11, 2024

JazzFest Berlin 2024 Haus Der Berliner Festspiele Berlin, Germany October 31-November 3, 2024 Intro For its sixtieth edition, the renowned JazzFest Berlin not only presented a full program of 24 shows by over 120 performers from around the globe, but also ran a research lab looking back at the event's history, ...

Andrew Hill Sextet Plus Ten: A Beautiful Day, Revisited

by Dan McClenaghan
October 21, 2024

The heyday of pianist Andrew Hill (1931-2007) happened during his hang with Blue Note Records, where he released ten albums between 1963 and 1970, including 1964's Black Fire, a splendid quartet session featuring saxophonist Joe Henderson; 1964's Point Of Departure), that featured a freewheeling sextet that included Henderson, multiple reedist Eric Dolphy and trumpeter Kenny Dorham; ...