Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- "Live" 1961
- The Eric Dolphy Collection
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1928-06-20
- Active to
- 1964-06-29
Discography
- Outward Bound1960
- Straight Ahead1961
- Where?1961
- Looking Ahead1961
- Screamin' the Blues1961
- Caribé1961
- Out There1961
- Far Cry1962
- The Quest1962
- Conversations1963
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- 264,958
- Total plays
- 2,678,223
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Eric Allan Dolphy (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was a jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet and was educated at Los Angeles City College. Dolphy was the first important bass clarinet soloist in jazz, and one of the first viable flute soloists in jazz. On early recordings, he occasionally played traditional B-flat clarinet. His unique and individual style utilized wide intervals, speech-like effects and exotic scales. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Eric+Dolphy">R
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Quotes
- “[On the question "Is bird imitation valid in jazz?"] I don’t know if it's valid in jazz, [...] but I enjoy it. It somehow comes in as part of the development of what I'm doing. Sometimes I can't do it.At home [in California] I used to play, and the birds always used to whistle with me. I would stop what I was working on and play with the birds.”
- “When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air. You can never capture it again.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. , ( 1928-06-20 ) June 20, 1928, Los Angeles , California, U.S.
- Died
- June 29, 1964 (1964-06-29) (aged 36), West Berlin
- Genres
- Avant-garde jazz post-bop third stream free jazz
- Occupations
- Bandleader composer sideman
- Instruments
- Alto saxophone bass clarinet flute soprano clarinet baritone saxophone piccolo tenor saxophone
- Years active
- 1949–1964
- Labels
- Prestige Blue Note Limelight
- Formerly of
- Charles Mingus John Coltrane Booker Little
- Website
- www .bluenote .com /artist /eric-dolphy /
- Education
- Los Angeles City College
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Eric Dolphy - Dorsey - 1947.jpg
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- date of death
- 1964-06-29
- date of birth
- 1928-06-20
- Commons category
- Eric Dolphy
- start of work period
- 1949-00-00
- birth name
- Eric Allan Dolphy Jr.
- name in native language
- Eric Dolphy
- end of work period
- 1964-00-00
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Article
Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader. Primarily an alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and flautist, Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence during the same era. His use of the bass clarinet helped to establish the unconventional instrument within jazz. Dolphy extended the vocabulary and boundaries of the alto saxophone, and was among the earliest significant jazz flute soloists.
His improvisational style was characterized by the use of wide intervals, in addition to employing an array of extended techniques to emulate the sounds of human voices and animals. He used melodic lines that were "angular, zigzagging from interval to interval, taking hairpin turns at unexpected junctures, making dramatic leaps from the lower to the upper register." Although Dolphy's work is sometimes classified as free jazz, his compositions and solos were often rooted in conventional (if highly abstracted) tonal bebop harmony.