Dolphy

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A roll call of local jazz heroes raised here: There are Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy in Watts, coming of age together.

From Los Angeles Times

Here he is describing a collaboration between Eric Dolphy and Ron Carter: “It is free. It is beautiful. It is funny even! It freaks me out! Give me my brain back!”

From Los Angeles Times

Earlier that year, he had toured with arguably his greatest small group, a sextet including multi-reedist Eric Dolphy, whose sensitivity and brilliance were an especially good match for Mingus’s own.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Dolphy, who had remained in Europe after a tour, died unexpectedly that June at 36 years old; by September, that band was just a memory.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the early ’60s, Eric Dolphy had had a tremendous impact on him, and if you look at the things they did together, you can hear that.

From New York Times