(Artist Transcriptions). Note-for-note transcriptions for flute and alto sax of this innovative avant-garde instrumentalist's playing on 15 top standards: April Fool * Bemoanable Lady * Beyond the Blue Horizon * Glad to Be Unhappy * God Bless' the Child * G.W. * Like Someone in Love * Serene * Softl[...]
In his tragically short life (19281964), Eric Dolphy was a titanic force in the development of the sixties avant-garde (or "new thing") from the hard bop of the late fifties. The searing intensity and sonic exploration of his work on alto sax, clarinets, and flute derived in part from the concurren[...]