The “Mostly Dolphy” concert by the Luckman Jazz Orchestra on Saturday night at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex was a good idea in principle. The subject of the program -- multi-instrumentalist Eric ...

Newly-remastered SACD reissues of Eric Dolphy's albums for the Prestige label mark the 90th anniversary of his birth. The recording sessions that Eric Dolphy led in the last four years of his life ...

To say that Eric Dolphy died in his prime would be a massive understatement. While on tour in Berlin in June 1964, the multi-instrumental virtuoso — whose solos on alto saxophone, bass clarinet and ...

When Nixon was elected in '68, I left for Mexico. Six years later I came back and found out that all of my tape reels had been given to the New York Public Library. I didn't even know they were there ...

What would the combination of squeaky Italian town bands, Renaissance dances, wild folk dance and the free jazz of Eric Dolphy sound like? A dog's breakfast, might well be one's first response. But in ...