Eric Dolphy- GW

Today this sounds inside i reckon, if you like it maybe you will like' folk forms; the Mingus album with Dolphy, it is raw/sweet in places

There's nothing random about Dolphy's lines, they seem intuitively logical to me and every note fits beautifully. You have to train to play this fast and make note choices as intelligently as this, I hear them and try 2 integrate them into my playing, it's hard!

If I played an instrument without any musical conception or technique, it would sound nothing like this, it would sound ugly - and people seem to think Dolphy plays random notes! The lines are actually very well-balanced and musical!

i agree; it is a truly sad & pathetic sight.

excellent way to put it sir.

the other guys like Sun Ra...and whoever else you may accuse of "bullshitting" there way thru the music...well they were just searching and improvising, trying to discover new structures, rhymths, timing, etc. They wanted to go outside the norm. You have to respect style and approach to the instrument...not judge it. It all is coinside, nothing is bogus about what these guys are doing. music gets no better. i wish i could take my blue note records with me to heaven, if i could i would hehe.

if ya listen to it...clearly Bop on another level...very coherent lines....no BSing...I agree with you!

I did not expect people to be analizing this guy...leaning towards negitive...like saying him and Pharo didn't know what they were doing half the time and bullshitted thru solos...to explain it astrologyically(which i doubt you'll hear too often, because I study astrology massively and know it well to be true) is that Coltrane was a virgo. Virgos analize everything to the most exact precise detail even if it is boring. so yes coltrane did it like that matematically well thought out.

I love eric ,he always plays on top of the melody,great intuition

i play trumpet but watching this video makes me want to take up saxophone. eric dolphy is amazing

very well!!