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Naima (Eric Dolphy Album)
''Naima'' is an album by American musician Eric Dolphy, released in Europe in 1987 by the Jazzway label, and later by the West Wind label. Four of the five tracks were recorded on June 11, 1964 in a Paris studio for radio broadcast, nine days after the Hilversum session that yielded '' Last Date'', and eighteen days before Dolphy's death. The remaining track, a duet with bassist Ron Carter, was recorded in New York City in November 1960, during a session which also produced three of the tracks released on '' Other Aspects''. The tracks recorded that day represent the last of Dolphy's commercially available recordings. Music from the same recording session was also issued on '' Unrealized Tapes'', released in 1988, ''The Complete Last Recordings: In Hilversum & Paris 1964'' (2010), and ''Paris '64'' (2018). Background In April 1964, Dolphy accompanied Charles Mingus and his band on a tour of Europe organized by George Wein. (Performances from this tour were documented on '' Revenge! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Dolphy
Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the same era. His use of the bass clarinet helped to establish the instrument within jazz. Dolphy extended the vocabulary and boundaries of the alto saxophone, and was among the earliest significant jazz flute soloists. His improvisational style was characterized by the use of wide intervals, in addition to employing an array of extended techniques to emulate the sounds of human voices and animals. He used melodic lines that were "angular, zigzagging from interval to interval, taking hairpin turns at unexpected junctures, making dramatic leaps from the lower to the upper register." Although Dolphy's work is sometimes classified as free jazz, his compositions and solos were often rooted in conventional (if highly abstracted) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |