Eric Dolphy- 245

[Scrayfish0]

So beautiful, so powerful, so brilliant, so everything. Love that Bennie Bailey too..what heart, what soul!!!!

[raffzzify]

des oies sauvages

[rhumbaphone]

youtube should install a love button.

[P1B1U1H1]

Dolphy generated for me something no other musician ever did, jealousy. If ideas from all human endeavor can somehow be placed on a scale of value, Dolphy's originality would render his very, very high.

[cordfluidnevoie]

strong nummers

[JazzLoverKhurram]

He has perhaps the most stirring meaty bluesy alto sax sound in the history of jazz next to Bird and Earl Bostic..as a former electric guitarist & heavy metal fan who dug Eddie Van Halen, Hendrix, John McLaughlin & Allan Holdsworth in my earlier years I was totally turned on to Jazz by Eric Dolphy & decided to take up the saxophone lol

[gleno61927]

There are 56 birds on the roof

[Dfrankjazz]

Enjoy a GREAT master class on the music of Eric Dolphy ! Type in "Dave Frank" Dolphy on Ustream. You vill dig this!

[jediknightrider]

Thx for the posting Eric Dolphy doing 245 live in Berlin. I'm amazed every time I hear it and now I'm stunned at the intensity of his live performance. Is that Booker Little on Trumpet or someone else? He's awesome too!

[motherleo007]

@jediknightrider looks like freddie hubbard

[aarfeld]

@motherleo007: He worked with Freddie Hubbard quite a bit after the untimely death of Booker Little from kidney failure. Do you happen to know who the other musicians are on this occasion?

[motherleo007]

@aarfeld no clue... Piano player looks like Dave Burbeck... minus the glasses... can probably wiki the others

[aarfeld]

@motherleo007: I was able to learn who the musicians were from one of the other videos on You Tube of this performance. They are: Eric Dolphy - alto sax

Benny Bailey - trumpet

Pepsy Auer - piano

George Joyner - bass

Buster Smith - drums

[FMerloable]

dolphy crucified himself for music and creativity

[DrumzzKool]

Eric Dolphy. Signifyin in complete control of his instrument. Lovely.

Mystifying. Makes your head spin. Even with many, many listenings...you always find somethin new.

[Asuntovelka]

Thank you so much for sharing all this incredible material with us.

[alexdelarge66]

TA DE POCAMADRE ESE SOLO NO MMS, CHE ERIC DOLPHY

[pooperscoopr69]

Master musician. Original voice fueled by an unadulterated spirit.

[pooperscoopr69]

Only Bird had greater technique and facility on the alto.

[DYNODRUM]

Dolphy-Ayler- Great Jazz icons to speak, so Tragic to lose both in such ways...How much fine ability and contributing so much , Never will be quite matched inoriginality.

[gluten]

@oOJimmySueOo You seem to remember from a biography? Great. That's solid enough evidence that they played together. it's people like you that caused the second world war.

[benzies123]

A true master, with an ingenious beard and a Bass Clarinet - no one can top that.

[sebastianjazzjazz]

dolphy made that damn sax shout and cry and moan

[desao3]

Absolute Genius

[choperudo]

Nunca me lo pude tragar al tio este, al igual que Ornette Coleman, son tipos re grosos supongo pero no me llegan.

[sphinxicity]

Very challenging work. Not for the faint hearted as Rangers say.If you have the patience, no limit on the beauty.

[michaelhintongtr]

I bought this as a double album called "The Berlin Concert" - "Gee Wee" [G.w.],"The Way You Look Tonight"!, 19:00 'Hot House"...!!!

[FunkySkunk90]

He died so terrible young, imagine his efforts he could have made.....

[preachingsaxplayer]

This stuff is deep, an expression of life from the artist!

[wekilledthegost]

Dolphy could make my hair stand on end and be heartbreaking at the same time. Just listen to him as the lights are going down. Our love goes with him.

[StickyRix]

He has a 3rd Eye

[kittyface0406]

oh wow...I wished the trumpets at our school could play dynamics like that.

[bixthebeid]

Please! Someone can tell who is playng the trumpet??? Is not Freddie Hubbard?? Is wonderfull=)=)

[memzehni]

Benny Bailey on trumpet

[PSIchiater]

PSIchiatrische Bluesabstraktion,herrliche PSIchomusik!Harrrrr

[gamwizrd1]

oooh shivers when they first came in. lol

[ADURG1]

mad beautiful..and my first time hearing this particular tune...gotsta git Outward Bound. anybody remember Out There? GREAT one..w/ Ron Carter on cello assisting ED on stating the themes...Roy Haynes on drums and bass player i cannot recall....

[aarfeld]

@ADURG1: Such harmonic inventiveness, originality and beauty--I can never get enough of this great artist. That he could only be with a such a short time has been a tremendous cultural loss.

[eginardozyz]

Personnel: Eric Dolphy (flute, clarinet, alto saxophone), Benny Bailey (trumpet), Pepsi Auer (piano), George Joyner (bass), Buster Smith (drums)

[sclogse1]

Would love to know the other players names....trumpet is wonderful.

[ZachRhea2]

I love Dolphy's playing so much. He's like a little more sophisticated Ornette. Not calling Ornette worse. I love how dirty Ornette is but I'll take Dolphy over him any day. The free-er the better. "Hat and Beard" is one of my favorites. I wish there was footage of him playing that.

[whykatera81]

why do all geniouses die so dam soon????

[mahoose6]

i think u meant THE shit

[justb2k]

THE SONG IS A SHIT

[jmet718]

brillant song!

[thegoodusernameman]

Trumpet solo is incredible

[Jazzman303]

The Octave GLisses going upwards at 3:34 . really make it sound distant when hits up high.. Absolutely its a blues from the Moon.

[phourtay]

this sounds like a blues you play on the moon. i can dig it!

[longboarder1960]

Eric played like no one else!

I love hearing a song, and saying that's Eric!

and finding someone new that he played with, he played with so many greats.. Monk, Mingus,

Coltrane, Chico Hamilton, etc. and his style stands out with them all, Love Ya Dolphy!

[YearOfTheManBeast]

when did he play with monk? douche.

[stmaxlv]

ED never played w/Monk...I can't think of a single recording...can anyone else?

[YearOfTheManBeast]

Check the monk or dolphy sessionography...neither overlap.

[fiddlercrab3]

What a damn shame indeed.

[oOJimmySueOo]

@stmaxlv I read Monk's biography and I seem to remember them having at least played together. Also there is a photo in there of the two of them together

[aarfeld]

@oOJimmySueOo: Eric Dolphy played with Charles Mingus in 1960, and can be heard on the Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and Mingus at Antibes albums. He also toured Europe with the Mingus sextet in early 1964. The Mingus band for this tour was extensively recorded, including on the Cornell 1964 album. The line-up included pianist Jaki Byard.

[oOJimmySueOo]

@YearOfTheManBeast fuck, that's a bit of an ass thing to say. He did play with Monk. So I guess you are the one that seems like a fool now. Even if he didn't, what a strong and rude response to someone's opinion. Anyway, I know he played with Monk on more than one occasion.

[edcerc]

dolphy was one of the first players with such a modern interpretation of tonality. Rather than just a cut and dry 12 tone scale he was also open to everything in between. Ornette was like this too but i dont think he mastered traditional bebop to the degree of dolphy. Not taking anything away from Ornette, hes a great player and a great inovator. They both helped paved the way for really free players like ayler.

[memzehni]

It's amazing...you really find EVERYTHING on YouTube. Aw my god...how beautiful is this...

[stmaxlv]

I believe this tune is called "The Meeting". Am I wrong?

[doctortragus]

I think it is labeled correctly. The main theme matches 245 from the Outward Bound album.

[stmaxlv]

The album titled, what, "live in Berlin" or Berlin Concerts or

whatever, it's titled "The Meeting".

[Jazzman303]

It's 245 on the Outward Bound record... whatev

[stmaxlv]

I don't believe I have heard Outward Bound, so you could be right. But listening to this video, it is the same actual (live) performance

as on the aforementioned "Berlin" record. The

lineup does include Benny Bailey on trumpet and one Pepsi Auer, if memory serves, on piano.

[Jazzman303]

Well... all I can say is if you don't have Outward Bound or Out To Lunch you haven't lived my man. haha.

P.S. It's 245... Im positive

[stmaxlv]

Yes Jazzman, on Outward Bound it's 245; on Berlin Concerts it's The Meeting. Go to Itunes

and find Berlin. The vid = the music on Berlin!!!!!!

ps - I had Out There but not OB or OTL. But you know what? My favorite ED is the Coltrane Live at the VV and Mingus at Antibes. You've heard MatA haven't you???

[yukongiraffe]

no, that is a different recording.

[Jazzman303]

What?

[yukongiraffe]

The recording of "245" on "Outward Bound" is a different cut. Just listen to the order of the solos.

[Jazzman303]

Im aware... Its live... When did I say it was the Take from the Album? They don't have that little Drums and Bass intro.

[jaroslavmottl]

who is pianist and the other members pls ???

[macthetablespoon]

just a blues (YAWN)... music is just crying out to be subverted by sound.....just listen to that food mixer...

[macthetablespoon]

it's in black and white, it must be good!

[ContrabassSaxophone]

in my opinoin, Dolphy outblows even Ornette.

[downnola620]

No doubt about that. Mingus' album with Dolphy called "Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus" was his answer to Ornette's piano-less quartet, and if you ask me it beats the hell out of anything Ornette ever did.

[michaelhintongtr]

@ContrabassSaxophone fhey play together on Jazz Abstractions [album] by Gunther Schuller. On the first take of Free Jazz [previously unreleased] Dolphy steals the show [Ornette Coleman Double Quartet -one channel Ornette's quartet, the other channel Eric Dolphy's quartet!]

[AndrewMills1]

@ContrabassSaxophone it's cos Dolphy can play the shit out of the changes...

[deechillah]

I have this record but damn it's so much better on this live recording/video..Whew!

[elecacu]

The trumpeter is Benny Bailey

[thesamc]

That's just amazing

[santacru]

The trumpeter is Benny Bailey, established comparison to photos.

[nataclarinet]

just great!

[capnmurphycrunch]

Benny Bailey is probably a good call.

[petardino]

great!

[TimBalesRealHorns]

could the trumpeter be Benny Bailey? .02

[ndeamonk]

You know, I think the trummpeter is actually Benny Bailey

[devadelic]

I know the trumpeter from the record version on Outward Bound was the great Freddie Hubbard. This may very well be Booker Little before his untimely death.

[devadelic]

What a genius. This is one of my favorite blues pieces ever. Dolphy could take a basic blues pattern and make a totally original musical statememt, like he did with anything. I did my college disertation on Dolphy, if I only had access to this great footage then. Great stuff elmosaico. Cheers to you.

[phumlanimtiti]

whos the trumpeter

[jovesheerwater]

no esh trompetci, esh alzo soxafthonishka, hun bassi klahranetska yaus vediputz!!

[kuruuzum]

trompetçi de eric dolpy kadar ilginç çalıyor..

[knucmo]

A good example to follow. Constantly practicing, and constantly searching.

[elmosaico]

huh?

[es345td]

Eric Dolphy was a Monster