Dolphy

[ dol-fee ]

noun

1. Eric Allan, 1928–64, U.S. jazz musician.

Example Sentences

She’s pretty wide open and into jazz artists like Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane.

From Los Angeles Times

In the early ’60s, Eric Dolphy had had a tremendous impact on him, and if you look at the things they did together, you can hear that.

From New York Times

“We want them to have associations with Eric Dolphy or very early Bill Evans or Thelonious Monk.”

From New York Times

The flute doesn’t have the gravitas or the boisterous sound of a saxophone or a trumpet, and it didn’t fully infiltrate the realm of improvised music until the 1960s, with the likes of Yusef Lateef, Eric Dolphy, Herbie Mann and Hubert Laws — not to mention the salsa and pachanga scene in New York, where the flutist, bandleader and record executive Johnny Pacheco was a major presence.

From New York Times

But the big attraction is that Eric Dolphy — the visionary multi-reedist who played a key part in Coltrane’s musical development, and stars in those Vanguard tapes — plays almost as prominent a role here as the bandleader.

From New York Times