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Jazz Revolutionary : The Life & Music Of Eric Dolphy
Eric Dolphy - Book - by Jonathon Grasse
(2024)
Jazz Revolutionary is the first full biography of Eric Dolphy,
passionately tracing his creative life from Los Angeles clubs of the
late 1940s and 50s, to New York in the early 1960s, and on to Paris,
where sixty years ago he died from the complications of undiagnosed
diabetes. It presents an engaging examination of this innovative
musician and composer, from his family background to posthumous
memorials, and provides insight into his recordings both as sideman and
leader. Dolphy emerged at the frontiers of post-bop and free jazz,
collaborating with John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, and
Gunther Schuller, among others, during the early 1960s.
This
book accounts for his successes, trials, and tribulations. His critical
reception is presented as an element of his career s ups and downs,
ultimately leading to an attempt at a new life in Paris. The albums on
which he appears are interpreted title by title, track by track, without
unnecessary musical terminology or musical examples; instead of cold
discographic charts, readers are brought into each recording with a
descriptive prose framework reflecting Dolphy s performances on alto
saxophone, flute, and bass clarinet.
Eric Dolphy was perhaps
jazz s first true multi-instrumentalist and a pioneer of avant-garde
technique. He is also widely remembered by those who knew him as a kind,
gracious human being. In Jazz Revolutionary, his artistic
accomplishments, his friendships and family life, and his timeless music
are brought together in one place for the first time.
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