Dolphy
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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 ● Dec. 16, 2025
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 ● Dec. 15, 2025
Beyond his own music, Dolphy appeared as a key soloist in Civil Rights-era musical essays by the bassist and composer Charles Mingus, particularly in “Original Faubus Fables” and “Meditations on Integration.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
In interviews over the years, he said he received compliments from saxophonists Cannonball Adderley and Eric Dolphy but that his jazz ambitions stalled.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2020
Not at Horn Rock, but in the barn at the Dolphy brothers’ house, or in Jenna Trudeau’s basement, or elsewhere.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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