Eric Dolphy

American jazz musician (1928–1964) · 1928–1964

Appears in 4 videos · 4 passages, 2 of them in depth.

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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. […]

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Season 10 · 7 Apr 2022#12 From Kafka to Proust, the dialectical passage from the intermezzo to the perpetuated edge

1:31:42The jazzman who went furthest in the distortions of a theme; he spoke of a music "almost captured," nearly seized but always in flight.

Series · 17 Dec 2020Musicosophy 7. The Greeks, myth and music

1:00:27On flute, he answers Mingus's bass as in a wordless dialogue.

Season 11 · 3 Sept 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: Desiring what? Through whom??

32:47His remark on music that disappears at once illustrates fleeting enjoyment.

Season 10 · 7 Jul 2022#16 Michel Clouscard: "There are no holidays in the concept!" - Dominique Pagani

22:34On the edge of free jazz, with Mingus.