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Film & TV
Known for
- Jazz Legends: Charles Mingus & Eric Dolphy - 1964 — sax alto, flûte, clarinette basse2022
- John Coltrane – Antibes/Baden Baden/San Francisco — Himself2008
- John Coltrane - Impressions Of Coltrane — Himself2007
- Jazz Icons - John Coltrane Live in '60, '61 & '65 — Himself2007
- Last Date — Self1991
- Charles Mingus Sextet — Self1964
- Jazz on a Summer's Day — Self1960
- Trane Tracks: The Legacy of John Coltrane
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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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Allan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Place of death
- West Berlin
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Genre
- free jazz
- Instrument
- clarinet
- Record label
- Impulse!
- Image
- Eric Dolphy - Dorsey - 1947.jpg
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- date of death
- 1964-06-29
- date of birth
- 1928-06-20
- cause of death
- diabetes
- Commons category
- Eric Dolphy
- manner of death
- natural causes
- 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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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eric Dolphy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.