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Out to Lunch! in detail
A biography about a towering jazz figure like Eric Dolphy has been long overdue and luckily, we've reached the point where that's finally happened. Sadly passing away at only 36 years old in 1964, he made his mark not only with Charles Mingus and John Coltrane but also his own records as a band leader. Certainly one of his most celebrated albums was 1964's Out to Lunch! (on Blue Note), which came out only a few months after he died. Here, author/professor Jonathon Grasse details the album in an excerpt from his new extensive book on Dolphy.
ERIC DOLPHY
Out to Lunch! in detail
Book excerpt by Jonathon Grasse
(October 2024)
A biography about a towering jazz figure like Eric Dolphy has been long overdue and luckily, we've reached the point where that's finally happened. Sadly passing away at only 36 years old in 1964, he made his mark not only with Charles Mingus and John Coltrane but also his own records as a band leader. Certainly one of his most celebrated albums was 1964's Out to Lunch! (on Blue Note), which came out only a few months after he died. Here, author/professor Jonathon Grasse details the album in an excerpt from his new extensive book on Dolphy.
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There is always something new to hear in Out To Lunch! Dolphy's pinnacle work simultaneously points to a reimagined Afro-descendant lineage, a neo African past seen through the progressive glasses of early 1960s modernism and Civil Rights-era awareness. In these tracks, a universalist avant-g
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