Eric Dolphy
USA
Born: 20 June 1928
Died: 29 June 1964
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
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Eric Dolphy was a true original with his own distinctive styles on alto, flute, and bass clarinet. His music fell into the "avant-garde" category yet he did not discard chordal improvisation altogether (although the relationship of his notes to the chords was often pretty abstract). While most of the other "free jazz" players sounded very serious in their playing, Dolphy's solos often came across as ecstatic and exuberant. His improvisations utilized very wide intervals, a variety of nonmusical speechlike sounds, and its own logic. Although the...
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