Dolphy

American  

[dol-fee] / ˈdɒl fi /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Here he is describing a collaboration between Eric Dolphy and Ron Carter: “It is free. It is beautiful. It is funny even! It freaks me out! Give me my brain back!”

From Los Angeles Times

Earlier that year, he had toured with arguably his greatest small group, a sextet including multi-reedist Eric Dolphy, whose sensitivity and brilliance were an especially good match for Mingus’s own.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Dolphy, who had remained in Europe after a tour, died unexpectedly that June at 36 years old; by September, that band was just a memory.

From The Wall Street Journal

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