Eric Dolphy- GW

1961 30 August: Dolphy Quintet
Berlin broadcast.

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[RameshChotanagour]

I wish Dolphy improvised for about 2 or 3 more decades!

[babydweezil]

Eric Dolphy – alto sax

Benny Bailey – trumpet

Pepsi Auer – piano

Jamil Nasser, aka George Joyner – bass

Buster Smith – drum

[SlikkTim]

The most unfuckwitable alto sax player ever. Ain't nobody tryin' to sound like him, cause its impossible. Always loved that uptempo version.

[Rob Johnson]

You know, so many tenor sax players emulate Trane, and you can't blame them. Playing permutations of an idea, extrapolating it out to the nth degree, is easy to try to imitate. They end up playing scales real fast, missing what Trane did, but they all try. You notice, nobody ever tried to emulate Eric Dolphy. They still don't. What he did was sui generis. Nobody can figure him out. He was a true genius.

[Tumtrah Sretep]

Dolphy died June 1964 in Berlin. He played his last concert at "Jazz-Gallery", Bundesalle, Berlin, near Kurfürstendamm, now named "Rickenbacher´s". That is a bandstand, which presents almost every evening rock, blues, seldom jazz., mostly amateurs. What shall we do on the 50th anniversary of Dolphy´s death at the spot of his last concert?? I think, something must be done!!

[mlmusic49]

These Cats are reading the charts how many could do that today

[Jazzlegend112]

wow

[FreddieSausage]

Isn't it lovely that every day, for the last seven years, an average of 100 people have watched this remarkable film.

[thcappel]

If the racial problems didn't exist, and he could have been treated or diagnosed with Diabetes, I'm sure he would have! He was working on a violin Quartet before he died. That would have been awesome!!

[unkommon2001]

he has nicer sun glasses than anyone i've seen in the past 50 years. shows you how far fashion's come, and how tasteful jazz musicians are

[johnlocust]

looks like his 3rd eye is trying to break through...

[MrBugalusmith]

Yeah this is my brother Earl Buster Smith he took me to the drums when I was 2 years old enjoy who am I

Marvin Bugalu Smith/ master drummer