What a tone he gets out of a bass clarinet! From honks to squeaks to wails to sweet bliss. And with that groove of rhythmic bop & swing going from top to bottom through all the possible lyrical resonances. He's the wildest cat that ever blew into a reed. He's Bird, Ornette, Albert Ayler & Archie Shepp rolled into one. If only he'd have lived to give us more. And to hear him with bassists like Mingus & Richard Davis. He's the Monk of single note instruments. Give him a manzello stritch.

@accordionSWE

Ай бұрын

Always thought about what would have happened if Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane had been able to live and move their music into what later became Jazz Fusion. How would they have sound during the 1970s and 1980s? But what these two giants gave us still is incredible to listen to these days.

I can't believe the intervals and rapid jumps in register. He really went where no one had gone before and very few have gone since.

I am taking up Bass clarinet at my school and my band director told me to look up Eric Dolphy.... wow I didnt even think that a bass clarinet could play like that is amazing wow Dr.Cannon was right

Geniuses on all counts. The nearly impossible to describe greatness of Eric Dolphy. The unbelievable timekeeping of Charles Mingus. The beautifully swinging Dannie Richmond. The smile on Clifford Jordan and Johnny Coles' faces. The sheer luck that the Norwegians taped this concert.... Well that gave me a huge smile today. Thanks for posting this most incredible moment in jazz and film.

@Tomatohater64

2 жыл бұрын

Dolphy was f***ing amazing. Love all this guy's work. Gazzeloni from his "Out to Lunch" album is a masterpiece. Anybody know what year this little ditty live performance was done?

@sharonbodea7677

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tomatohater64 April 1964

@Tomatohater64

2 жыл бұрын

@@sharonbodea7677 Wow, he died shortly afterward.

@mananaadamia1657

Жыл бұрын

And Jaki Biard

Yes!! Dolphy always puts me in the best mood, great to see this clip. He really is the Godfather of modern bass clarinet: He is to us (creative bass clarinetists) what Sabbath is to Heavy Metal bands. Broke new ground, sent everything soaring to a new level while incorporating all the solid foundational elements of what came before.

@michellesveinson4550

4 жыл бұрын

You know, I play bass clarinet and I love it. Favourite instrument. The other night I was out to dinner with a friend and I noticed that at the table beside us a woman had mentioned Bass Clarinet and I tuned in, SO excited. Only to hear she was complaining about being paired up for one with a tenor saxophonist. Seems about right for the first time I hear one mentioned outside of a music room setting.

@videotra

8 ай бұрын

@@michellesveinson4550 @bassclarinetquartet Is there a whole album of Dolphy playing the bass clarinet? Other full albums of jazz musicians doing it? I really love the sound of the clarinet, and especially the bass clarinet.

My fav jazz soloist of all time - "Charlie Parker meets Eddie Van Halen" on bass clarinet, alto or flute. Love all the comments in this thread

This dude had the most original sound in the history of music. I could listen to the amazing sounds all day!

If the caption is correct , this is from the year he died. Just think what this guy could have done...he would be a towering giant of American music, one of the greatest musicians of our time.

My FAVORITE jazz instrumentalist!!!

Insane groove

It is so good that it almost hard to believe. The rythm from the band and the intriguing playing from Eric Dolphy. Can not get any better.

This man was a genius, that is the best way to describe Eric Dolphy.

One of the best solo's I've ever heard. What a sound, what a player!

Dolphy at his finest.

Those register jumps are totally insane! I guess the reason he isn't more influential is that that stuff is extremely difficult...on any instrument. The only three guys I can think of who attempt this are Woody Shaw, Joe Diorio, and Aydin Esen.

What can I say but his greatness was understated! Maurice

I love Dolphy's playing & yey how his playing, Bass Clari - Flute is so different... love the flute playing on Gazzelloni, Out to Lunch Album.. I play Flutes/alto & Bass & Bass Clari & could never tire of listening to Dolphy great video too....

He makes the bass clarinet seem like the most magnificent instrument ever! The sounds that come out of the bc is amazing! I play bass clarinet and I'm not NEARLY and talented as Dolphy.

ONE HELL OF A SOLO, DAMN!!!

This is classic.

eric dolphy has to be my favorite jazz musician. his playing is wild ... it sounds like strangling a goose.

Sensacional.

When listening to this strata of jazz for the first time, you're right, listening to other material for the underlying structure is helpful; also listening to other, older artists, to hear the progression that jazz has evolved to help the listener anticipate the alternative voicings that would be coming from a Dolphy or Coltrain (or later on, a Cecil Taylor)

The best concert (next to the Thelonious monk concert) Oslo have ever experienced!!

I love Dolphy's playing & yey how his playing, Bass Clari - Flute is so different... love the flute playing on Gazzelloni, Out to Lunch Album.. I play Flutes/alto & Bass & Bass Clari & could never tire of listening to Dolphy

@Julz796 That's typical Dolphy - improvisation using lot of wide intervals (he loved twelve-tone). Dolphy is in the Ornette Coleman school (although I think he's actually more musical in his approach). There is a song there (Mingus' take on Take the A Train perhaps?), but other than fitting in the basic chord structure Dolphy is creating his own flights of fancy on a bass clarinet. As far as finding a bass clarinetist, you're best bet is either a classical orchestra or a sax player who doubles.

such a beautiful instrumet. i wonder why more people don't play it.

Who says you need a low C Bass clarinet? Dolphy proves it right here!

@jeanhodgson8623

Жыл бұрын

His is a slightly unusual model that goes down to its D (C in concert pitch). I heard a solo in which he played the low D.

In this video he is playing with a great band. But what I remember is there are many recordings when Eric Dolphy is playing with jazz club house bands while touring in Europe. The recordings from Copenhagen is what comes first to my mind, and there are a track in which he and the house band band are trying three takes on a song in different rythms. Would a thing like that happen today? Would three takes on a song be recorded and placed on a record? Do people today go to jazz clubs and listen to a soloist meeting a band for the first time? It is a great joy today experiencing the discoveries of music that were made back then.

I didnt know a bass clarinet could do that. lol. this is awesome

Mingus keeps it cool. What a groove!

oh god, this is amazing! beautiful! so this is what heaven sounds like!

Bass Clarinet Forever!!

Wow, this is just....amazing. I'm going to get my jazz band director to let me just play my bass instead of sounding bad on tenor sax xD

holy crap!!!!!! this man is soooo cool i wanna sound like him one day on my b.c......im in love

Such a cool sound, besides the great playing.

Just discovered this diamond via Coltrane's live at the Village Vanguard. If you want to hear this genius at his best, check out any of the 4 versions of Spiritual on that 2 CD set. I actually admired his playing more than Coltrane's on that recording and that's saying a lot.

@accordionSWE

Ай бұрын

That box my sister bought me for Christmas almost twenty years ago. A great gift. Can recommend anyone to get the hands on one of the boxes.

Welcome to Vertical Chromaticism, enjoy the ride! +1

amazing mr dolphy

WOW!!! simply amazine

Danny is amazing

WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I played Eric playing bass clarinet on the "Last Date" album for my Dad. He said it sounds like a turkey cock being chased around a farmyard. He used to say "Have they caught that turkey yet?".

Dolphy went into diabetic shock on his last gig--sadly Mingus was not there to help his best friend. Dolphy=genius!

@accordionSWE

Ай бұрын

Think I read somewhere the he got some wrong medication in Germany. Do not know if it is true.

@ktwheels44

Ай бұрын

@@accordionSWE it's actually way more disturbing and heartbreaking. It was a mystery for years but the truth finally came out. I can't tell the story...too much to handle.

i've got my music exam tomorrow but i find this more worth my while

perfect...bass clarinet as it was meant to beeeee!!!

this is killin me it's so good!

@swuzzups I'm glad you feel that way. Most people have never heard of him.

I love Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy

We "Big Clarinet" players are the heart and soul of the band!!! Alto, Bassett Horn, Bass, Contra Alto, AND Contrabass. WE ROCK!!!!!!

Bob Mintzer is probably the best jazz bass clarinetist now

genius, and thanks for the post!

he is the best

Grande Márcio

i felt speechless when dolphy plays that bass clarinet you rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the greatest

Dolphy. The most underrated sax player of his generation. Had Coltrane not existed, he would have been a god.

@mananaadamia1657

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

Amen brother

Right on. He finished, and then they gave him.... another four bar intro? Yep.

@jbs4em me 2!!! he sounds amazing on sax, bass clarinet and flute. His playing is seamless between the instruments!

Amzing

that bassist's name is Charles Mingus

at 3:50? i'd guess he's creating the slurry shake between two notes with his embouchure. he's got most of the pads closed, and he's getting overtones to sound without moving his fingers. Making the clarinet behave a bit like a bugle.

@accordionSWE

Ай бұрын

What happens there and two seconds later is magnificient. In a few seconds it is like a time machine from New Orleans to the future. The grit, the dist and the pulsating rythm. When Take The A Train once were written who could imagine how it would be played in a way breaking musical conventions?

Great

Johnny Coles trumpet, Clifford Jordan tenor, Jaki Byard piano, Dannie Richmond drums.

I played for 9 years, and yeah, do it quick and you can squeak, not matter how hard you try not to

No problem dear

I never thought jazz bass clarinet was a possibility. I have now been proven wrong.

Listen to Stravinsky, Bartok, John Cage, Rollins and Parker.....Dophly has all this in there and more...he an underappreciated genious.

He is so young I figured it out later and that is Danny Richmond on drums I believe the rmor on him is he was a sax player originally

YAY! BASS CLARINET!!

Eric Dolphy sure was a good bass clarinet player.

@ethanw7943

4 жыл бұрын

He is fucking terrible.

@liamwatson5125

3 жыл бұрын

Wild Raved I wouldn’t say he was terrible, but he did play the instrument like nobody else could.

If ,you Listen to Joshua Redmen ,I feel He stylizes ,Dolphy alot in His solo's and Playing .Another Immense Player....

@donnscottshetler It's Charles Mingus. This was actually his band.

@jesusisaklingon "The bassist" is Charles Mingus.

dolphy is on fire, here!!!!

"How Great Thou Art" !! --"Dolphy Trailblazed His Own Path ", and even though J. Redman Is Great [.He plays alot like This at Times].. Its, been done . Mr. Funn Mingus, plays Bass Drum on Floor ,count In.. "These Masters are a Painting in Progress" .Danny Richmond, Jakie Byard, etc. Unreal,, 64' ON THE FLOOR...

Do a Google search using the search term "Dolphy Mingus notice Oslo". Gene Santoro's Mingus biography "Myself When I Am Real: The Life And Music of Charles Mingus" reports "In Oslo on April 13, 1964, Dolphy finalized his leaving. He would stay in Europe after the tour." You can back up now and ask Santoro your question, but presumably one of the other musicians that he interviewed remembered how and when it happened. The answer for a question like this is usually: a book.

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he actually did.

4:35 when you’re solo goes on to long so the bass player has to intervene

@kaspafischer

5 жыл бұрын

hahahaha

i can park a truck in between his intervals. what grace...

haacho hacho hacho hachoo etc. dolphys the man

Johnny Coles (tpt); Eric Dolphy (as,fl,bcl); Clifford Jordan (ts); Jaki Byard (pno); Charles Mingus (bass,comp,arr); Dannie Richmond (dr).

@William864 I'm pretty shure that there is the Charles Mingus Sixtet on this video.

I bet he was practicing 24/7

Thanks for this post. I never knew of Eric Dolphy, and now that he has been gone for 32 years, I am just learning about him. I would think that in the 60's he would not have had a large American audience. I am not a musician (can you tell?). But, I think if I had heard him then I would have liked his work. I am going to seek out more videos of his music.

@mambojazz1

2 жыл бұрын

Not quite true. Dolphy was touring musician constantly on the road and he even joined John Coltrane's quartet which in the early 60's was the absolute most famous group in all of jazz. As far as avant garde playing it isn't any more popular now than it was in the 60's

hear, hear!

The biggest on bcl!

eric dolphy is my 2nd favorite jazz musician (coltrane is 1st) this video is awesome too bad the tenor solo was cut short

@brandonborn9540

4 жыл бұрын

extremesushirolling full video is posted

@taariqtaariq is!! Him and Coltrane!!!

OMG AMAZING

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Similar , but there are more cross fingerings at the bottom of the registers

OOOOOOOOMMMMMFFFFFFFFFFGGGGGGGGGG So sick.

played bass clarinet for a while. god damn, thats a fun instrument to play

He is absolutely amazing I wish I could play bass clarinet like that. I play Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet and Flute but I am no where near 1/4 as amazing like him. The way he goes from high to low without squeaking is amazing.

Shaman!

trumpet player looks like he's feeln' very very good...LOL..

i want to learn how to do that with my bass clarinet