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Eric Dolphy: Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
by AAJ Staff
Hitting play on a reissue can be like stepping into a time capsule. In this case all the more so because the sound quality is Jurassic, but even despite incredible distortion and difficult resolution there's always room for more Dolphy on the shelf. Top-notch material here, displaying the same buoyant sense of adventure and unerring swing ...
A Casual Stroll Down The Free Jazz / Avant Garde Avenue
by AAJ Staff
Since most of the readers of this column who write to me seem to be rather at home with the Swing and Be Bop or Hard Bop and Cool Jazz eras, I have been meaning to write a piece on Free Jazz and its slightly sterner-miened cousin Avant-Garde. There can be hardly a doubt that reactions ...
Ginsberg's 'America' and Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Current events, such as they are, prompted me to go back and re-read Allen Ginsberg's poem “ America ." There is much good literature on the relation between the Beat movement and jazz, I'll not try and revisit that topic here. I will however dwell on one characteristic all great jazz players' posses and which this ...
Social Skills
by AAJ Staff
We, as a society, are rapidly losing all of our important social skills. I'm not talking about etiquette things, like which one is the salad fork. I'm talking about the skills needed to have any type of meaningful interaction with our fellow human beings. Things seem to be conspiring to keep us more and more isolated. ...
Far Cry
By Eric Dolphy
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Mrs. Parker of K.C. (Bird's Mother) 2. Ode to Charlie Parker 3. Far Cry
4. Miss Ann 5. Left Alone 6. Tenderly 7. It's Magic 8. Serene.
Far Cry (Remastered)
By Eric Dolphy
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Mrs. Parker Of K.C. (Bird
Eric Dolphy: Far Cry
by David Rickert
In the early sixties, Eric Dolphy was one of the young rebels responsible for moving jazz forward in giant strides, advancements that led some to call his music “anti-jazz”. Although not quite as deliberately bizarre as Out to Lunch, Far Cry is still exactly that: a far cry from what virtually everyone considered jazz to be. ...
