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Birth Name: Eric Allan Dolphy Jr.
Born: 20 June 1928 Died: 29 June 1964
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Relationship Status: In a relationship
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Deep, sweet and cool: classic black music
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Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the same era. His use of the bass clarinet helped to establish the 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
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Music...Jazz Enthusiast (83 music items)
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All That Jazz (9 music items)" The label avant-garde jazz at first glance seems to hint that there's a daunting task ahead for the listener. Like there's a riddle or puzzle that requires strenous activity of the frontal lobe in order to decifer its majesty. I don't get that with Eric Dolphy's music, or at least Out to Lunch, which is what it's pigeonholed under. It could easily grace the background of the vast majority of American and French new wave crime/mystery films of the 50s and 60s which targeted a wide demographic. "
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Music...Jazz Artist (97 music items)
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