If Eric Dolphy’s music were a school of painting it would be analytical cubism: planar and angular, multi-directional and austere, But it’s not abstract. It’s showing us something we know; we are simply experiencing it in a completely new way. His work, in its frame, becomes an entire reality unto itself. It’s endless.
So what happens when you place this masterly museum piece in a sweaty nightclub? Does it shine? Does it wilt? Does Dolphy change his approach? Few have examined Dolphy more closely than saxophonist/bandleader/poet/professor Roy Nathanson but we don’t know if even Roy has heard the recordings from the WKCR archives that we’ll play on Mitch Goldman’s Deep Focus this Monday (8/21) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. It’s on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org.
Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
Did you know that you can find out more about Deep Focus and research past episodes here? https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/
Photo credit: Eric Dolphy courtesy of Prestige Records.
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