Now don’t get me wrong, his records aren’t just a bunch of squaks and ridiculous noises. It’s totally apparent in his music that he was coming from somewhere other than most of the musicians of his day, especially with the guttural sounds that he could make with the bass clarinet and the expression he added to his playing. Birds? “I gotta hear this,” I thought to myself. I was told he had a big part in the free-jazz and avant-garde push in jazz music, and that his style was heavily influenced by the sounds of nature, including animal sounds-specifically birds. When the lessons moved to bass clarinetist/flautist Dolphy, it raised my bow quite a bit. Art Davis, a jazz musician himself, taught the class of the history of jazz and the way new sounds and artists developed. Ed Breckenridge: My introduction to Eric Dolphy was through a history-of-jazz class in college.
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