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Potsa Lotsa: The Complete Works Of Eric Dolphy

Read "The Complete Works Of Eric Dolphy" reviewed by Keith Henry Brown


The great multi-instrumentalist/composer Eric Dolphy spent almost as much time being criticized in his career as he was praised. Remarkably, there was dissension in some critical circles at the time about his abilities as a performer and writer. In the infamous cover story in the April 1962 issue of Downbeat Magazine, Dolphy and his employer at the time, John Coltrane, found themselves in the precarious position of having to “Answer The Jazz Critics": “What I'm trying to ...

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Potsa Lotsa - The Complete Works of Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011)

Potsa Lotsa - The Complete Works of Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland

Multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy was primarily known as a virtuoso musician and improviser during his brief life, playing with the likes of Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and making records on his own. But as this two-disc set shows, he was quite a prolific composer as well.

Potsa Lotsa is a collective band featuring Silke Eberhard on alto saxophone, Patrick Braun on tenor saxophone, Nikolaus Nueser on trumpet and Gerhard Gschlobl on trombone. On this album they play the entire composed output ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Complete Works Of...

Jazzwerkstatt Berlin-brandenburg E.v.
2011

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