Eric Dolphy - Springtime

Eric Allan Dolphy, Jr. (June 20, 1928 -- June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flutist, and bass clarinetist. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet, piccolo, and baritone saxophone. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the 1960s. He was also the first important bass clarinet soloist in jazz, and among the earliest significant flute soloists.

His improvisational style was characterized by the use of wide intervals, in addition to using an array of extended techniques to reproduce human- and animal-like effects which almost literally made his instruments speak. Although Dolphy's work is sometimes classified as free jazz, his compositions and solos were often rooted in conventional (if highly abstracted) tonal bebop harmony and melodic lines that suggest the influences of modern classical composers Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky.

[chuckciao]

The wale & cry of Dolphy’s playing came from a higher place! God, I wish he would have lived but in spite of his early death, he left us with his wonderful legacy of music!

[TheMizmalice]

<3 Heard him in a small jazzclub (Holbæk) (60 km outside Copenhagen) in September 1961. Wild thing. <3

[rtblues]

He practiced answering birds when he was young.
Mentioned in an interview with his mother.

[deadzior]

That was phenomenal. This is the thing you live for

[bwanna]

The way this number begins makes me feel like I'm in a spaceship ready to go on a journey. The way it ends makes me feel like I have arrived.

[bigtone]

Dolphy and Coltrane together were phenomenal.

[chriss]

This is one of the reasons why I'm going to take saxophone lessons l love this music

[EricAllenDolphy]

Eric is pure, honest and true to the sound of life and laughter ...making music 🎶 for healing properly in your heart ❤️ 💙 💜

[lasmluclasm]

The Dolphmaster strikes again with blissful yet violent clarinetto-basso

[delridgehunter]

An amazing improviser. Eric was one who new no limitations to the development of the music he heard. He explored each instrument to its fullest. Life for Eric Dolphy was centered around Eric finding those musical elements that created the sound he forever searched for. Live was timeless. Music was one of the great creation humans were given to inform the universe. It will continue until wee are no longer here.

[simoneweil]

june 29th is when it is springtime, springtime forever. thank you for what you do, play and touch that which is precious. five decades of listening to you, now thanks to you tube, it is all here, in Mumbai, in here, in my body theme.

[JosephDuvernay]

May God Bless Sir Eric Dolphy!
Eternally grateful; your Art got me through
some terribly rough times back when!
Hello to all my Children. I Love You!
- Joseph

[TheXynos]

Eric Dolphy – Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Alto), Flute
Nathan Davis – Sax (Tenor)
Donald Byrd – Trumpet
Jacques Dieval – Piano
Jacques B. Hess – Bass
Franco Manzecchi – Drums
Jacky Bambou – Percussion

[molluskweddin]

I listen to this every spring equinox. It’s a perfect musical representation of the earth slowly waking back up.

[johnholloway]

FIRST HEARD HIM IN 64 I HAD A GRIN ON MY FACE AS HE SPOKE THROUGH HIS HORN IVE BEEN SMILIN SINCE THEN HE NEVER DISAPPOINTS BOUND

[Theflowoflove]

What a masterpiece.Thank you for sharing.

[antonioarcas]

! Another "Sketches of Spain" ? ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

[contactkeithstack]

mind blown. such a mind blowing solo.

[wraitheful]

there’s masterpieces and then there’s this

[wraitheful]

Donald Byrd’s line from 3:01 or so, lives in my head.