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Re: Eric Dolphy - music clip

Author: ghuba
Date: 2006-06-11 01:17

This clip is also being discussed on the new bass clarinet list on Yahoo. This is one of more than a dozen Eric Dolphy clips on bass clarinet and alto saxophone available on YouTube.com, a site which often comes up on this board, thanks to the efforts of Ken Shaw.

The Eric Dolphy clip from 1961 is from a period when he was probably at his peak on both bass clarinet and alto sax. By this point he had totally mastered hard bop and was moving into the "Avant Garde" or "new jazz" phase of his career for a couple of years before his untimely death.

While I suppose this will probably lead to some disagreements, I would contend that Dolphy's playing in this period, along with the earlier work of Harry Carney in the Ellington Orchestra, probably defined bass clarinet as a very serious jazz instrument. The next big development in jazz bass clarinet did not occur until the last 1960s when Benny Maupin largely defined the sound of the breakthrough Miles Davis recording, Bitches Brew, with his anchoring bass clarinet work on every track.

George

Post Edited (2006-06-11 01:18)

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