Eric Dolphy

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= Editor README = Dolphy's corner of the database is currently undergoing an extensive cleanup effort. More information here: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Jazz/Dolphy == Annotation == ''Eric Allan Dolphy'' is simply the most important jazz multi-instrumentist ever, if such "rankings" should apply in music. At ease in any formations, from ''Chico Hamilton'' to ''Ornette Coleman'', ''Dolphy'' featured, empowered and blew ahead each and every important session of the first half of the 60's. Taking the right channel on ''Free Jazz'' as morning sessions, leading ''John Coltrane'' to new grounds in the afternoon, messing extensively with ''Charles Mingus'' formations as a pause, he still found time to gig nightly at the ''Five Spot'' in historical sets with ''Mal Waldron'' and the regretted ''Booker Little''. Literally blasting ''Blue Note'' in three sessions, leaving ''Prestige'' with an unmanageable amount of material, ''Eric Dolphy'' career had all the sights of an unstoppable storm. Taking a high speed ''"A" train'' for a crazy ''European tour'' with brotherly-minded ''Mingus'' in ''1964'', ''Dolphy'' brutally passed in somewhat mysterious conditions, leaving Mingus filled with grief, retiring from music until 1970. In a five years long time period, ''Eric Dolphy'' simply changed the face of music. Curious people may start with any of the ''Blue Note'' or ''Prestige'', possibly with one of the rejoicing ''Five Spot'' sessions. Important readings include Simosko & Tepperman reference disco-biography and Alan Saul work at https://adale.org Uwe Reichardt work can also be found, though most of the discographic information has been subsumed into Simosko's.