Bibliographies. [52] He was apparently seriously ill when he arrived, and during the first concert was barely able to play. Settling in New York by early 1960 led to Dolphy’s most noted performing associations, with Charles Mingus, trumpeter Booker Little, and John Coltrane. Geraldino “Dino” Quizon has died at 45 years old, his sisters announced. [50] He also planned to form a band with Woody Shaw and Billy Higgins, and was writing a string quartet, Love Suite. Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist. [27][28] Coltrane had gained an audience and critical notice with Miles Davis's quintet, but alienated some jazz critics when he began to move away from hard bop. [14] He performed Edgard Varèse's Density 21.5 for solo flute at the Ojai Music Festival in 1962,[46] and participated in Gunther Schuller's and John Lewis's Third Stream efforts of the 1960s. [11][12] His parents were Eric Dolphy, Sr. and Sadie Gillings,[13] who immigrated to the United States from Panama. [1] One night was documented and has been released on three volumes of At the Five Spot as well as the compilation Here and There. Ted Curson remembers, "That really broke me up. Eric Dolphy’s death was tragic and unnecessary. AKA Eric Allan Dolphy, Jr. Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist. On the other hand, the duet between double bass and bass clarinet on “Something Sweet, Something Tender” seems to bring Dolphy’s classical origins to the foreground, although tenderness and sweetness are perhaps stretched to their harmonic limit. [7] Following his discharge in 1953, he returned to L.A., where he worked with many musicians, including Buddy Collette, Eddie Beal, and Gerald Wilson,[7] to whom he later dedicated the tune "G.W. In spite of this situation, we are going to look at inventive ways to look at serving our readership with digital content and of course in print too. Dolphy was also planning to join Albert Ayler's group,[11] and, according to Jeanne Phillips, quoted in A. He died of complications of diabetes. Dolphy's recording career as a leader began with Prestige. [1] On these early sessions, he occasionally played baritone saxophone, as well as alto saxophone, flute and soprano clarinet. Mingus was crushed. These sessions marked the first time Dolphy played with Bobby Hutcherson, whom he knew from Los Angeles, and whose sister he dated at one point. This aspect of the second great quintet is an ironic footnote for Davis, who was critical of Dolphy's music: in a 1964 Down Beat "Blindfold Test", Miles quipped: "The next time I see [Dolphy] I'm going to step on his foot. Dolphy was an impressive multi-instrumentalist, too. ... At a John Coltrane concert one night, he met prominent multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy, a member of Coltrane’s band. His abrasive, unpredictable solos are exhilarating and endlessly inventive, but they did not please everyone. Around 1962–63, one of Dolphy's working bands included the pianist Herbie Hancock, who can be heard on The Illinois Concert, Gaslight 1962, and the unissued Town Hall concert with poet Ree Dragonette. Dolphy died in Berlin while on tour, from complications due to undiagnosed diabetes. [69] In the United States, the arts group Seed Artists presented a two-day festival entitled Eric Dolphy: Freedom of Sound in Montclair, NJ that year. What is certain is that, while short, his career was still long enough to have a lasting impact on a crowded jazz scene and in my view, he was one of the great originals of American music. I have been thinking of Dolphy lately because recent events have reminded me of the controversy surrounding his tragic death in 1964, cutting short his remarkable, if brief, career. [45] (The earliest known version was recorded at the Five Spot during his residency with Booker Little.) Dolphy and Little also co-led a quintet at the Five Spot during 1961. Eric Dolphy’s influence was huge in the jazz community and beyond. Tapscott was injured in an auto accident, that led him to give up the trombone, and focus exclusively on the piano. Some details of his passing are still disputed, but it is accepted that he died of a coma brought on by an undiagnosed diabetic condition. Varsity is the independent newspaper for the University of Cambridge, established in its current form in 1947. It was announced in May 2014 that five boxes of music papers had been donated to the Library of Congress. 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That was the end of that club". [32] Little's leader date for Candid, Out Front, featured Dolphy mainly on alto sax, though he played bass clarinet and flute on some ensemble passages. [4][3], 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. Frank Zappa acknowledged Dolphy as a musical influence in the liner notes to the 1966 album Freak Out! The Penguin Jazz Guide observes that this was the third time Dolphy had used the word “out” in his album title − the previous two were Outward Bound (1960) and Out There (1961) − which may give us an idea of its avant-garde pretensions. Carter, Hancock and Williams would go on to become one of the quintessential rhythm sections of the decade, both together on their own albums and as the backbone of Miles Davis's second great quintet. [54] Unbeknownst to doctors, Dolphy was a teetotaler who didn’t smoke cigarettes or take drugs.[11]. There is a certain playfulness about much of the album’s work, from the irregular 9/4 lilt of “Hat and Beard”, a Monk tribute, to the humorous “Straight Up and Down” which depicts a drunken gait in its slow rhythm and lurches in register. "[22], Dolphy was buried in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles. [30] A 2001 Pablo box set drawing on recordings of Coltrane's performances from his European tours of the early 1960s feature tunes absent from releases of the 1961 Village Vanguard material, such as "My Favorite Things", which Dolphy performs on flute.[31]. Mingus pleaded with him not to; he even wrote a tune called “So Long, Eric,” hoping that Dolphy might change his mind. He was a fine lead alto in a big band. “Farewell Kuya Edgar. Today would have been his 79th birthday. Dolphy's first two albums as leader were Outward Bound and Out There; both featured cover artwork by Richard "Prophet" Jennings. [55] Shortly after Dolphy's death, Curson recorded and released Tears for Dolphy, featuring a title track that served as an elegy for his friend. Coltrane, Greensleeves, Africa Brass, bass line.png 942 × 384; 2 KB Andrew White, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and jazz scholar who ran a one-man music-publishing shop from the basement of … [12] Recordings made in 1954 with Clifford Brown document this early period.[17]. [64] John Coltrane paid tribute to Dolphy in an interview: "Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. In July 1963, producer Alan Douglas arranged recording sessions for which Dolphy's sidemen were emerging musicians of the day, and the results produced the albums Iron Man and Conversations, as well as the Muses album released in Japan in late 2013. He was left in a hospital bed for the drugs to run their course. Nevertheless, his classical background occasionally made an appearance: Gioia notes that he was heard playing composer Edgard Varèse’s work for solo flute Density 21.5 at the 1962 Ojai Festival in California, for example. After being administered a shot of insulin he lapsed into insulin shock and died". Jazz critic Ted Gioia is right to point out that, unlike most free-jazz musicians, Dolphy’s aspirations were originally on becoming a classical musician, and his early penchant for Debussy, Ravel and Webern would remain influences for his compositions, if not his solo technique. Dolphy was the subject of a 1991 documentary titled Last Date, directed by Hans Hylkema, written by Hylkema and Thierry Bruneau, and produced by Akka Volta. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician. Eric Dolphy. And he had mastered all the instruments he played. [16] Dolphy often had friends come by to jam, enabled by the fact that his father had built a studio for him in the family's backyard. Quizon was last seen in public in a supermarket in Quezon City on Friday, where he suddenly collapsed. featured yet another young performer, drummer Tony Williams, and Dolphy's participation on Hill's Point of Departure session brought him into contact with the tenor player Joe Henderson. John Coltrane was given his flute and bass clarinet upon his death, and according to his biography used to travel with a photograph of their owner. Eric didn't use any drugs. He'd arrived two days earlier to play a new club called the Tangente. Fantasy released a 9-CD box set in 1995 containing all of Dolphy's recorded output for Prestige.[33]. He was a student at Florentino Torres High School. Eric Dolphy died accidentally in Berlin on June 28, 1964. With Eric, that's all you could remember. R.I.P. Reports says that in 1957, he performed w. Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, and Sonny Rollins on ‘Sonny Side Up.’ [19] He took part in Mingus' big band recording Pre-Bird (later re-released as Mingus Revisited), and is featured on "Bemoanable Lady". I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. No cause was given, but Mr. Mengelberg was known to have dementia and had not performed in public for several years. He also worked and recorded with Gunther Schuller (Jazz Abstractions), multi-instrumentalist Ken McIntyre (Looking Ahead), and bassist Ron Carter (Where?). All jazz musicians have their own style, but some, surely, have more unique styles than others. [25][26] They would often exchange ideas and learn from each other,[14] and eventually, after many nights sitting in with Coltrane's band, Dolphy was asked to become a full member in early 1961. Dolphy and John Coltrane knew each other long before they formally played together, having met when Coltrane was in Los Angeles with Johnny Hodges in 1954. The album Far Cry contains his performance of the Gross-Lawrence standard "Tenderly" on alto saxophone,[44] and, on his subsequent tour of Europe, Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child" was featured in his sets. Dolphy died after a five-year battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to his long-time partner, actress and singer Zsa Zsa Padilla. Media in category "Eric Dolphy" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. Dolphy received his big break when he was invited to join Chico Hamilton's quintet in 1958. Dolphy, Mingus said, "was a complete musician. His association with the label spanned 13 albums recorded from April 1960 to September 1961, though he was not the leader for all of the sessions. He and John Coltrane (41 at his demise) "were on [a] health food pills and honey" diet that they thought "made them much stronger when they played." When Eric got sick on that date [in Berlin], and him being black and a jazz musician, they thought he was a junkie. [56] His headstone bears the inscription "He Lives In His Music."[14]. He was 86. "[57] However, Davis new quintet's rhythm section had all worked under Dolphy, thus creating a band whose brand of "out" was strongly influenced by Dolphy. To have seen Dolphy live must have been a different experience altogether, but we are surely blessed to have his genius on these records, especially as most of them they have been remastered so superbly. He was taken to a hospital bed and left for the drugs to run their course, completely misdiagnosing his condition. [12] It was announced in May 2014 that five boxes of music papers had been donated to the Library of Congress. and an appearance on pianist/composer Andrew Hill's Blue Note album Point of Departure, Dolphy left for Europe with Charles Mingus' sextet in early 1964. [1] On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. We love you. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence around the time that he was active. NNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. [14] While still in junior high, he began to study the oboe, aspiring to a professional symphonic career,[14] and received a two-year scholarship to study at the music school of the University of Southern California. [71], In 2014, marking 50 years since Dolphy's death, Berlin-based pianists Alexander von Schlippenbach and Aki Takase led a project, So Long, Eric!, celebrating Dolphy's music and featuring musicians such as Han Bennink, Karl Berger, Tobias Delius, Axel Dörner, and Rudi Mahall. In order to maintain our editorial independence, our print newspaper and news website receives no funding from the University of Cambridge or its constituent Colleges. His death … [37] The album features three Dolphy compositions: "G.W. [20] Later he joined Mingus' working band which also included Ted Curson at the time. Dolphy (Comedian) real name was Rodolfo Vera Quizon Sr.. [48] The sessions are perhaps most famous for the three duets Dolphy performs with bassist Richard Davis on "Alone Together", "Ode To Charlie Parker", and "Come Sunday"; the aforementioned release Muses adds another take of "Alone Together" and an original composition for duet from which the album takes its name. He had mastered jazz. Eric Dolphy’s sound continues to fascinate me because it was not just different, but radical in its refusal to bow to convention. The liner notes to the Complete Prestige Recordings box set say that Dolphy "collapsed in his hotel room in Berlin and when brought to the hospital he was diagnosed as being in a diabetic coma. Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA Location of death: Berlin, Germany Cause of death: Diabetes complications R. Military service: US Army [1] Heart attack, brought on by undiagnosed diabetes. Please hug Dad, Kuya Freddie, Kuya Rolly and Dino for me. [12][72], Dolphy's compositions are the inspiration for many tribute albums, such as Oliver Lake's Prophet and Dedicated to Dolphy, Jerome Harris' Hidden In Plain View,[73] Otomo Yoshihide's re-imagining of Out to Lunch!,[74] Silke Eberhard's Potsa Lotsa: The Complete Works of Eric Dolphy,[75] and Aki Takase and Rudi Mahall's duo album Duet For Eric Dolphy.[76]. [1] He began music lessons at age six, studying clarinet and saxophone privately. 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