Tag: Eric Dolphy

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The vault might seem to connote a sense of authority, visions of round doors, time locks and bank currency or rows of booklets and stacks of boxes whose contents have been carefully packed away. Yet musically the prising open of a vault can prove a cacophonous and contentious affair. What should be scrapped or saved for posterity, who gets...

By the summer of 1961, the indomitable saxophonist John Coltrane had established his first quartet and opened new harmonic expanses for jazz through his sheets of sound. As a leader for Atlantic, the cascades of 'Countdown' and 'Giant Steps' with its loping bassline and spirited cycle of chromatic thirds helmed his first iconic album and introduced what would become...