Eric Dolphy and my father were best friends growing up. They played together in junior high and high school. Eric drove my parents to Yuma to get married in 1950. My father sold his clarinet to buy the ring. Daddy said Eric was looking for the note, the perfect note, and the sound that was so elusive. Daddy died Dec 30, 2018. I wish he could hear Eric's voice again. Eric should have lived as long as his best friend.
Thank you for sharing your father’s and Eric’s stories, wow, I totally am a ‘Eric Dolphy’ Fanatic !!! I play flute , sax, and bass very, very well, and just love this cat Dolphy. I also have ‘fascinating stories involving some of the ‘great musicians’ that you would never see in books, such as my father who was second chair to Gene Ammons in Captain Walter H. Dyett’s band at Du Sable high school, which at the time, they were a ‘professional outfit’ , and crazy, but wonderful incident between my dad and the one and only ‘ Duke Ellington’….Yes it is so fascinating to hear Eric’s speaking voice and yes a TOTALLY TRAGIC , and unfortunate end to this beautiful brother’s life. Fan forever………
Damn shame he was misdiagnosed and stigmatized by European doctors. I am a nurse and can hear in this interview how clear minded and focused he was just weeks before his death. A true prodigy Eric Dolphy...I will be studying his music even more to get better insight as to which direction he was heading
Another innovator and shaker of the system we lost too soon. I once studied drums with Charlie Persip who played with Eric. I avoided asking him about it, until one day I finally did. All he said was: "He was a beautiful man. A beautiful man."
His demise will go on as one of the worst crimes in Jazz history. In retrospect, it's clear from listening to just a sampling of his performances that he espoused such an ambitious, relentless pursuit of different styles in his music. Of course, I feel honored to be able to hear him speak to those motives in this interview. Thank you to whoever uploaded and shared this with us.
This is PRICELESS addition to jazz history! A great book is waiting to be written about Dolphy in 1964. He was seemingly God-inspired and chasing a sound inside of him that was being expressed in various venues (e.g., his own groups as well as those led by Mingus, ‘Trane and others), platforms (bass clarinet, flute, etc.) and settings (live; studio; in nature, etc.). I’ve heard short clips of his beliefs about “hearing” music that begins around 3:30 ( “ . . . When you hear music; after it’s over, it’s gone, it’s in the air . . .), but this is my first time hearing that quote in its broader context. The catastrophic impact on music created by his departure from this Earth platform only weeks after this interview can still be felt by those of us who truly love what Eric Dolphy gave us during his all-too-brief career.
A gem of a recording. Of all the untimely deaths of legendary jazz musicians, none infuriate me more than Dolphy's. Racist medical malpractice robbed his life, and the world of decades of wonderful music. Just imagine if he was around in the late 60s and 70s and dipped into spiritual jazz or jazz-funk. Such a tragedy.
@@asianshoegaze2342 A young black jazz musician in 1964? If you read Ted Gioia's book, "The History of Jazz," you'll come across a page where he lists the names of young jazz musicians in the New York City area who died of heroin overdoses in the 1950s. It takes him nearly a page to list all the names. Why do you think I'm here, listening to Eric Dolphy? I love his music. Medical mistakes kill thousands of people every year. Do you know who Eddie Lang was? First, Eddie Lang wasn't his real name. He was the child of Italian parents and had an extremely Italian name, which he changed to Eddie Lang. ( There was an enormous amount of prejudice against Southern European immigrants in the America of the early twentieth century. ) He and his musical partner, Joe Venuti, were an American Rheinhardt/Grapelli, but eight to ten years ahead of them. To this day, Eddie Lang is considered the first great jazz guitarist. He was subject to tonsillitis. His friend, Bing Crosby, urged him to have a tonsillectomy. He did. The operation went well. Tragically, though, Lang developed an infection, and died, at 31. Do you think Lang received a lesser quality of care because he was Italian? I have no time for temperamental assh*les who see racism everywhere. You're exactly the kind of person who is destroying the country.
@@bobtaylor170The problem was the doctors made the assumption that he was a junkie and treated him as such without performing any standard tests to rule out anything else. Had they tested his blood sugar levels, he likely could have been treated and lived. Making assumptions was not the issue, but the fact that they didn’t bother ruling out other issues is. Did racism play into it? It’s not something anybody can say with a hundred percent certainty, but if the doctors could assume Dolphy was a junkie, we can assume the doctors were racists, can’t we?
Thank you so much! first time I listen Eric speaking. Amazing! Naughtly interviewer, asking if Eric enjoys more with Coltrane or with Mingus LOL, ¿a quién quieres más, a mamá o a papá? Who do you love the most, mummy or daddy LOL
I loved Dolphy by the first note I heard from record, end of the Sixties. We have done reseach in Berlin, where he died in 1964, and a memorial concert at the place of his last concert in 2014, the formerJazz Gallery, now Rickenbachers. Bundesallee, near U-Station Güntzelstrasse. Among others Mrs Silke Eberhardt played in memoriam of Mr Dolphy. His dead was a mixture of racism and a lack of knowledge about undiscovered Diabetes type one in 1964. If he he would have been white, his Diabetes would have been known before the shock in Berlin? He had a good person to care for him, Mr Hartmut Topf, who was the music promoter of the Jazz Gallery in 1964, I got to know in 2o14. So tragic, love every note Mr Dolphy played.
Eric Dolphy and my father were best friends growing up. They played together in junior high and high school. Eric drove my parents to Yuma to get married in 1950. My father sold his clarinet to buy the ring. Daddy said Eric was looking for the note, the perfect note, and the sound that was so elusive.
Daddy died Dec 30, 2018. I wish he could hear Eric's voice again. Eric should have lived as long as his best friend.
Thank you for sharing your father’s and Eric’s stories, wow, I totally am a ‘Eric Dolphy’ Fanatic !!! I play flute , sax, and bass very, very well, and just love this cat Dolphy. I also have ‘fascinating stories involving some of the ‘great musicians’ that you would never see in books, such as my father who was second chair to Gene Ammons in Captain Walter H. Dyett’s band at Du Sable high school, which at the time, they were a ‘professional outfit’ , and crazy, but wonderful incident between my dad and the one and only ‘ Duke Ellington’….Yes it is so fascinating to hear Eric’s speaking voice and yes a TOTALLY TRAGIC , and unfortunate end to this beautiful brother’s life. Fan forever………
Damn shame he was misdiagnosed and stigmatized by European doctors. I am a nurse and can hear in this interview how clear minded and focused he was just weeks before his death. A true prodigy Eric Dolphy...I will be studying his music even more to get better insight as to which direction he was heading
Another innovator and shaker of the system we lost too soon. I once studied drums with Charlie Persip who played with Eric. I avoided asking him about it, until one day I finally did. All he said was: "He was a beautiful man. A beautiful man."
This was only weeks before his death. One of the absolute greats!
His demise will go on as one of the worst crimes in Jazz history. In retrospect, it's clear from listening to just a sampling of his performances that he espoused such an ambitious, relentless pursuit of different styles in his music. Of course, I feel honored to be able to hear him speak to those motives in this interview. Thank you to whoever uploaded and shared this with us.
eric was way ahead of his time, absolute genius player..
What a beautiful man. God bless him)
This artist is beyond amazing and thank God he recorded with the best artists of the time.
Dolphy’s music is an essential part of who I am. Thanks ❤️
I was at that concert - and also in the one with Coltrane! Musical top experiences in my life!
This is PRICELESS addition to jazz history! A great book is waiting to be written about Dolphy in 1964. He was seemingly God-inspired and chasing a sound inside of him that was being expressed in various venues (e.g., his own groups as well as those led by Mingus, ‘Trane and others), platforms (bass clarinet, flute, etc.) and settings (live; studio; in nature, etc.). I’ve heard short clips of his beliefs about “hearing” music that begins around 3:30 ( “ . . . When you hear music; after it’s over, it’s gone, it’s in the air . . .), but this is my first time hearing that quote in its broader context. The catastrophic impact on music created by his departure from this Earth platform only weeks after this interview can still be felt by those of us who truly love what Eric Dolphy gave us during his all-too-brief career.
Imagine if amazing musicians like him, Booker Little or Herbie Nichols (to name just three) had lived longer. Jazz would have been different for sure.
The dude himself. Sorely missed - but loved by many of us.
some people burn so brightly and then they’re gone. cat’s work is genius.
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
A gem of a recording. Of all the untimely deaths of legendary jazz musicians, none infuriate me more than Dolphy's.
Racist medical malpractice robbed his life, and the world of decades of wonderful music. Just imagine if he was around in the late 60s and 70s and dipped into spiritual jazz or jazz-funk. Such a tragedy.
Not racist, but thinking according to probabilities. If I'd been one of the doctors, I would very likely have made the same misjudgment. So would you.
@@bobtaylor170 Don't accuse me of assuming a black person would be a junkie. TF is wrong with you?
@@asianshoegaze2342 A young black jazz musician in 1964? If you read Ted Gioia's book, "The History of Jazz," you'll come across a page where he lists the names of young jazz musicians in the New York City area who died of heroin overdoses in the 1950s. It takes him nearly a page to list all the names.
Why do you think I'm here, listening to Eric Dolphy? I love his music. Medical mistakes kill thousands of people every year. Do you know who Eddie Lang was? First, Eddie Lang wasn't his real name. He was the child of Italian parents and had an extremely Italian name, which he changed to Eddie Lang. ( There was an enormous amount of prejudice against Southern European immigrants in the America of the early twentieth century. ) He and his musical partner, Joe Venuti, were an American Rheinhardt/Grapelli, but eight to ten years ahead of them. To this day, Eddie Lang is considered the first great jazz guitarist.
He was subject to tonsillitis. His friend, Bing Crosby, urged him to have a tonsillectomy. He did. The operation went well. Tragically, though, Lang developed an infection, and died, at 31. Do you think Lang received a lesser quality of care because he was Italian?
I have no time for temperamental assh*les who see racism everywhere. You're exactly the kind of person who is destroying the country.
Eric was a diabetic those racist German dr killed him , if u think other wise than u too r a racist
@@bobtaylor170The problem was the doctors made the assumption that he was a junkie and treated him as such without performing any standard tests to rule out anything else. Had they tested his blood sugar levels, he likely could have been treated and lived. Making assumptions was not the issue, but the fact that they didn’t bother ruling out other issues is. Did racism play into it? It’s not something anybody can say with a hundred percent certainty, but if the doctors could assume Dolphy was a junkie, we can assume the doctors were racists, can’t we?
Thank you so much! first time I listen Eric speaking. Amazing!
Naughtly interviewer, asking if Eric enjoys more with Coltrane or with Mingus LOL, ¿a quién quieres más, a mamá o a papá? Who do you love the most, mummy or daddy LOL
I loved Dolphy by the first note I heard from record, end of the Sixties. We have done reseach in Berlin, where he died in 1964, and a memorial concert at the place of his last concert in 2014, the formerJazz Gallery, now Rickenbachers. Bundesallee, near U-Station Güntzelstrasse. Among others Mrs Silke Eberhardt played in memoriam of Mr Dolphy. His dead was a mixture of racism and a lack of knowledge about undiscovered Diabetes type one in 1964. If he he would have been white, his Diabetes would have been known before the shock in Berlin? He had a good person to care for him, Mr Hartmut Topf, who was the music promoter of the Jazz Gallery in 1964, I got to know in 2o14. So tragic, love every note Mr Dolphy played.
Had he been white they would at least had made a blood test... more racism than ignorance I'd say.
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