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Some similar artists who share his innovative spirit include Andrew Hill, Archie Shepp, Ornette Coleman, Sam Rivers, Grachan Moncur III, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"looking-ahead-2","title":"Looking Ahead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLooking Ahead\u003c\/i\u003e is the debut album by American jazz musician Ken McIntyre, recorded with fellow alto saxophonist Eric Dolphy in 1960 and released on the New Jazz label in January 1961. From the beginning Mr. McIntyre considered himself part of the avant-garde or ''new thing'' movement in jazz, as spearheaded by musicians like Ornette Coleman, Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor, although his own music was considerably more traditionally melodic than theirs. He played a whole fleet of reed instruments, including oboe, bassoon, bass clarinet and saxophones. 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A marvellous quintet featuring the great Booker Little on trumpet and the amazing rhythm section of Mal Waldron — piano, Richard Davis — double bass and Ed Blackwell — drums plus, of course, master Eric Dolphy on alto saxophone, bass clarinet and flute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sowing Records","offers":[{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":50416959652171,"sku":"2024640","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7427255403623_20497a4e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726713148"},{"product_id":"outward-bound","title":"Outward Bound","description":"\u003cp\u003eAvant-garde pioneer Eric Dolphy achieved incredible things with the bass clarinet, establishing it as a vehicle for solo improvisation, and was equally adept on alto and flute, gaining kudos from peers such as John Coltrane and Charles Mingus. \u003ci\u003eOutward Bound\u003c\/i\u003e holds a special place in jazz as Dolphy’s first LP fronting his dynamite quintet, leaving conventions behind from the get-go. With the entire group on tremendous form throughout and Dolphy reaching the heights of his genius, this is a stellar release from a giant whose star shined brightly and briefly, until his tragic early death from undiagnosed diabetes. Unmissable!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Survival Research","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50417168482635,"sku":"2010709","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Blue","offer_id":51939472441675,"sku":"R1054-4771","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0-1_532cf134_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726719823"},{"product_id":"last-date","title":"Last Date","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeluxe 6-panel digipak plus booklet with updated liner notes and bonus track. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLast Date\u003c\/i\u003e is a live album by jazz legend Eric Dolphy released in early 1965 on Limelight Records (Fontana). It was recorded on June 2, 1964, in Hilversum, Holland, shortly after Dolphy had settled in Paris following a tour with Charles Mingus. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDolphy is accompanied throughout by an all-Dutch trio, which includes acclaimed pianist Misha Mengelberg. As the album title suggest, this was Dolphy's last recording date. He died in Berlin from a diabetic coma on June 29, 1964, at the age of just 36. As well as the legacy of his own recordings, Dolphy is forever remembered for his work with John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and Booker Little.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jazz Up!","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50417383735627,"sku":"1137154","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/963c8328-6183-4cc2-b8cd-9a6f0b2259ed_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726728109"},{"product_id":"iron-man-black-friday-2023","title":"Iron Man - Black Friday 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis product is a Black Friday Record Store Day title and not available to pre-order.\n\nAvailable to buy in-store and online from 8am on 25\/11\/2023 (Black Friday Record Store Day).\nDon’t forget: Click 'Notify Me' to be the first to know about its availability online. It also helps us to place accurate orders so that we can please as many of you as possible on the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIron Man (aka the Eric Dolphy Record) from 1963 is known as an extraordinary complex and challenging recording. Dolphy was a Jazz multi-instrumentalist who gain prominence in the 1960's. He extended the vocabulary and boundaries of the alto saxophone, and was among the earliest significant jazz flute soloists. 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Master Dolphy shines, as always, on all his instruments alto sax, bass clarinet, and flute, while the track list consists of a rare mix of standards suchs as Milt Jackson's \"Bags Groove\", Monk's \"52nd Street Theme\", Cole Porter's \"What Is This Thing Called Love?\" and the famous unaccompanied alto sax version of \"Laura\", all this plus a 20 minutes long version of Dolphy's blues \"245\" where every single note played by Dolphy sounds as pure gold.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Honeypie","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50426155106635,"sku":"2199066","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7427244912969_a48be582_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726803036"},{"product_id":"outward-bound-3","title":"Outward Bound","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe complete original album 'Outward Bound' (Prestige\/New Jazz 8236), Eric Dolphy s first album as a leader. 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This album is life.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eDon DeMicheal\u003c\/strong\u003e,  Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone, bass clarinet Freddie Hubbard - trumpet Jaki Byard - piano George Tucker - bass Roy Haynes - drums. Englewood, New Jersey, 1960.  \u003cstrong\u003eBonus tracks: (10) \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBali Ha'I\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e (11) \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Things We Did Last Summer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Ted Curson - trumpet Eric Dolphy - flute Kenny Drew - piano Jimmy Garrison - bass Dannie Richmond - drums. 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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. 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Having travelled east with the Chico Hamilton Quintet in 1958 and being spotted playing with Charles Mingus, Dolphy was ready to make his first solo album for Prestige, 'Outward Bound' by April, 1960. Here he can be heard playing alto sax, bass clarinet and flute alongside Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Jaki Byard on piano, George Tucker on bass and Roy Haynes on drums. For 'Out There' also recorded for Prestige in August 1960, Dolphy is joined by Ron Carter on cello, George Duvivier on bass and Roy Haynes on drums. At the time of recording this was not probably the easiest jazz to listen to, as Dolphy was coming from the free thinking, Coltrane school of jazz. As he is quoted in the original liner notes to this fine album...... Something new's happening. I don't know what it is, but it's new, and it's good, and it's just about to happen, and it's wonderful to be here in New York, right in the middle of it'. 'Far Cry', remarkably also recorded for Prestige in late December of 1960 saw Dolphy joined by Booker Little on trumpet (who also gets a co headline on the front cover but was to tragically die at twenty three, less than a year after this recording!), Jaki Byard on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Roy Haynes on drums. Again it is illuminating to quote from the original liner notes to get where Dolphys' head was at during this time of tremendous challenges in the jazz world, and also a time where work was becoming scarce for the new wave of jazzmen like Dolphy, Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and Ornette. Asked if he would ever leave jazz his reply was instant............'I'll never leave jazz..........I've put too much of myself into jazz already.............to me jazz is like a part of living......walking down the street and reacting to what you see and hear.....there is so many possibilities for growth inside jazz because it changes and you change'. 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