"So Long Eric" was written by Mingus as an hommage to Eric Dolphy when he decided to leave the band and stay in Europe at the end of their 1964 tour. Only... He died a few months later in Berlin, giving to this tune a very different, and sad, meaning. Not so many people had the chance to play a piece composed for their own passing !
You have it right. I had just got hip to Eric’s music before he passed. I was saddened. I was just learning about jazz music. Fortunately for us jazz lovers he left behind a legacy of music for us to enjoy.
16:22 Danny looks up from his drum solo and sees Eric Dolphy thinking about what dolphins could do if they had hands or something... he says "GO Eric" and it's like Dolphy literally wakes up switches on. Greatest Band!
So cool!! All genius players. Dolphin always blows my mind. True American culture belongs too black USA. Charlie Patton to Eric Dolphin and Trane and Miles. Untouchable! 🎶🎼❤️❤️❤️
Mingus and Eric knew Jaki was every bit as talented as they (too bad the rest of the world didn’t). How insanely talented do you have to be when Mingus and Dolphy leave the stage so you can entertain the audience with your solo performance. (Mingus regularly featured Jaki like that.)
This lineup was absolutely amazing, the only lineup I've enjoyed more was The Quintet of Bud Powell, Max Roach, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. However this feels more tight and smooth, what I enjoyed about the Quintet was the feeling of fire meeting fire meeting fire meeting fire meeting fire. Both of these have their own unique qualities that make comparison fall flat, as it's not like either was lacking in either but the sound was so different... The metaphor of fire on fire on fire also reminds me of when Mingus, Roach, and Ellington played together. Seems Mingus was the common link.
Bop (be-, hard, post, etc) revealed artists who became genres themselves like MMM (Miles, Monk, Mingus). This sitting black tie chamber combo is a snapshot of the evergreen jazz with incomparable (yet underrated) virtuosi musicians... So long to all of them.
As a guitarist and Jazz fan, I love Eric's incredible octave skipping altissimo, smooth lagato runs growls, and his swing is ever present. I just think he was one of a kind.
Hi Tim, how do rate Dolphy's influence on Miles Davis? Just thinking of 'octave skipping'...this is a serious question. I often want to know more about technique...Mingus for me is exemplary on that bass, it has it own 'legato'...!
@@edwardwhittaker5728 Well I would say Charlie Parker, taught Miles, and Dolphy was certainly influenced by Bird. As was Trane with Diz, and round it goes.
That’s one killer piano solo! God damn, he builds it so well, while still keeping a strong base in the blues. The whole band is amazing, though, and Eric Dolphy, like always, goes fucking crazy during his solo. Love it!
This great music belonged to these great but mostly suffering musicians and their global audiences (this performance took place in Norway). They showed respect to the music they performed even with their outfits. My personal view is that we, the contemporary audience, are just visitors to the Museum of Jazz...
This is some of the best stuff i have heard Dolphy ever play. He is an absolute genius like Parker and Coltrane in my opinion. The sounds he generates and what he plays is absolutely mind blowing. Even when playing with Coltrane takes the stuff to another level! If those 2 would have been alive now I cant imagine!
@@kenkovar2647 mmm and vice versa... Mingus never reached these peaks again. It was more than a leader-sideman relation. Dolphy had the strange characteristic of getting out the best from the men he worked with and being leader even without leading.... he was even a bit not at his best as a leader: he was getting his best just slightly before dieing (his Out to lunch his an absolute masterpiece and his best achievement as a leader....but it came really late - he was already 36 - ... and unluckily he died shortly after recording it.)
Mingus had his first breakdown upon Dolphy's death. He thought the Germans had poisoed him. It is remarkable Dophy, Flo Jo, Beach Boy Mike Love, writer Charles Bukowski, Love's Arthur Lee all went to Dorsey High School in L.A!
@@jimrich4192 Not much else? Jim, you gotta be kidding. Mingus was one of the true geniuses in music. Get a little educated about his composing, band leading and bass playing and enjoy that man’s beauty he created for us.
Thanks for sharing! This band is just spectacular!! Dolphe was out of this world ... in another stratosphere musically!!🎶🎼🎵 I'm just glad to hear this, again!! Cheers to some fantastic musicians!!💯
check that dolphy. wow. out of the leagues. completely something else. not on the same level at all. now i understand why he is that genius. he doesn't give rats ass about nothing besides expression, whatever form-rhythm-effect-melody that takes it to express it. just unbelievable.
Mr. Byard's piano solo was very interesting to listen to - the organic nature of jazz was apparent when Mingus and Richmond totally locked down jnto a clocked groove. They sounded as if they were ready to take-off!
18:03 seeing Clifford look at Johnny for that little fill idea was really cool. Finding time, improvising, & displaying time signatures & how many times to play a note by hand. Golden Recording!!! Dannie’s drum solo is fire. Love the, “Here ya go Eric” at 16:26
kind of interesting to compare this with the MilesTonyWayneHerbieRon band at the same time. They both took the "inside-outside" form/no form approach. But Mingus was more attached to the roots and the blues, and the people he hired reflected that. They both were the pinnacle of what a small band can do.
Love the work of both groups, and basically agree. However, if I had to be trapped in Hell with one or the other, I know these six cats would be the best company on and off the bandstand! Mingus was a much more rounded and technically and conceptually acomplished musician than Miles, far less commercial in his directions, and, as you suggest, more rooted in the tradition. His bands emanated a character and vibrancy that I don't think the Davis quintet could match, as a unit. {Shorter's own recorded work often comes closer in that regard}. I also feel that the Mingus group was full of great contributors whose innovations went under the radar more than those associated with Miles, while being just as valid and timely. - Anyway, at least we beggars CAN be choosers. eh !
@@jazzwarrior7206yeah, mingus, clifford jordan, dolphy, danny, jaki, curson,and roland deserved more respect and an easier life, same with pullen, adams, not to mention bob neloms and ricky ford. Miles and the second quintet got their just deserts, nice houses in california, as much work as they wanted, and global respect. Mingus was a salty guy and didn't make life easy for himself or the people he worked with. BTW, trapped in Hell with this band...are you sure you're not in heaven?
@@esiegel2 Yes indeed, an imbalance we have seen all too often, not only in jazz of course, but wherever big-business and art mix. Miles was a pretty salty dude and all, but I guess his place was assured through other criteria. Re Hell vs Heaven : I guess I was thinking that, EVEN in Hell, one would be 'in Heaven' with those guys! - I think too, in Miles' or Mingus' cases, their entry to Heaven, or not, might depend on how much their musical contributions figure in the entry criteria, otherwise it's probably off to hell for those two boys! Either way, if I was sitting in Purgatory, looked out the window and saw ANY of them wandering past, I'd be off following them without thought as to the destination, but not until I had waited long enough for Coltrane to cruise by!
@@jazzwarrior7206 you know the joke about a jazz musician who dies and goes to heaven. There he sees a band with bud powell paul chambers john Coltrane and many other greats. The first solo is taken by a man with a white beard, fine threads, and shades. And he sucks. The newly arrived musician turns to the guy next to and looks quizzical. The second guy says, oh you must be new hers that’s god and he thinks he is miles Davis
@@esiegel2 Ha ha! I didn't know it, but here's an original (as far as I know!?!) : A perplexed St. Peter was presented with a certain Mr Miles Dewey Davis III at the pearly gates for 'check in'. "Mr Davis ...", said the saint, "I'm not sure that you have been brought to the right place". He went on : "Your behavior record shows numerous sins and offenses which necessarily incur exclusion from Heaven, including extensive licentious sexual activity, habitual and unrepentant anger and violence, a near-lifetime's worth of serious abuse of several varieties of hard narcotics, and complete non-attendance at, or respect for, the church." Miles, brandishing a vinyl copy of 'A Kind of Blue', rasped, " Yeah ... but I also made THIS !" St Peter replied, " - Oh ... I see! ... Welcome to Heaven, Brother Davis!"
20:25 just when you think Eric doesnt have any more gears, he pulls this shit out lol. Clifford and Johnny can't do anything else but laugh. Pure genius
hella great rhythm change on this...takin' it to another level/.....Mingus & Daniel. really communicating.....Mr. Byard adding a little Blues/Swing......Mingus havin' fum walkin' that Bass !!
GOAT!!!!!! Thanks for this live performance, it confirms that these great prophets were heavenly sent (this was/is God's jazz band). During the late 70's I was fortunate to purchase "The great concerts of Eric's prestige 3 LP volumes, featuring Blackwell, Davis, Little & Waldron" and I started having interest on searching for more of the so called 'Great Concerts' until I found the CM great concerts 3 LP volumes America label. I'm still enjoying these recordings on each and every Sunday afternoon. Was this the same live performance where the trumpeter (Johnny Coles) collapsed on stage at the end of the same track 'So long Eric don't stay over there too long'?. Unbelievable!!!!!!!
"So Long Eric" was written by Mingus as an hommage to Eric Dolphy when he decided to leave the band and stay in Europe at the end of their 1964 tour. Only... He died a few months later in Berlin, giving to this tune a very different, and sad, meaning. Not so many people had the chance to play a piece composed for their own passing !
You have it right. I had just got hip to Eric’s music before he passed. I was saddened. I was just learning about jazz music. Fortunately for us jazz lovers he left behind a legacy of music for us to enjoy.
Take jazz or stuff it is how I hear it
ERIC DOLPHY MEMORIAL BARBECUE- BY FRANK ZAPPA.
@@chunl2939 what wasn't what?
Ken Eric zijn muziek niet zo goed wel de muziek van Clapton 🎸 Onvergetelijk ❤🇳🇱😅👋
One of the most beautiful jazz concert ever seen . It seems like it was recorded yesterday .
The conversation between Mingus and Richmond bracketed by their respective solos. Incomparable.
16:22 Danny looks up from his drum solo and sees Eric Dolphy thinking about what dolphins could do if they had hands or something... he says "GO Eric" and it's like Dolphy literally wakes up switches on. Greatest Band!
lmfao
Yes
love this observation! lol!
"don't mind if I do"
Hold my beer
I like how the band is arranged for this. Like a family gathering.
This is what,,got me into jazz..i have no words, so long Eric R.I.P Giant
So cool!! All genius players. Dolphin always blows my mind. True American culture belongs too black USA. Charlie Patton to Eric Dolphin and Trane and Miles. Untouchable! 🎶🎼❤️❤️❤️
It was a tragedy losing Eric dolphy he was still young a lifetime of music in front . He was a giant and would have gone on to be even bigger
Jackie Byard, criminally underrated
Motion seconded!
When he plays that tremolo for a whole chorus and then finally released it, I came unglued.
Certainly not by me !!! He was a giant who had all the history of afro-américan music in his hands...
Mingus and Eric knew Jaki was every bit as talented as they (too bad the rest of the world didn’t). How insanely talented do you have to be when Mingus and Dolphy leave the stage so you can entertain the audience with your solo performance. (Mingus regularly featured Jaki like that.)
Underrated for who? Names please.
No Way Better is Impossible Glorious Mingus Eric Jaki Danny Cliford & Johnny!
This lineup was absolutely amazing, the only lineup I've enjoyed more was The Quintet of Bud Powell, Max Roach, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. However this feels more tight and smooth, what I enjoyed about the Quintet was the feeling of fire meeting fire meeting fire meeting fire meeting fire. Both of these have their own unique qualities that make comparison fall flat, as it's not like either was lacking in either but the sound was so different...
The metaphor of fire on fire on fire also reminds me of when Mingus, Roach, and Ellington played together. Seems Mingus was the common link.
チャールズミンガスのエリックドルフィーに対する熱い想いが窺えるセッションです。モノクロームの動画が中々渋い侘しい感覚を表しています。貴重な映像のアップ有難うございます。
If you only had one piece to demonstrate what jazz is . . . . .
Bop (be-, hard, post, etc) revealed artists who became genres themselves like MMM (Miles, Monk, Mingus). This sitting black tie chamber combo is a snapshot of the evergreen jazz with incomparable (yet underrated) virtuosi musicians... So long to all of them.
@david healy maybe 1001 times better...
As a guitarist and Jazz fan, I love Eric's incredible octave skipping altissimo, smooth lagato runs growls, and his swing is ever present. I just think he was one of a kind.
Hi Tim, how do rate Dolphy's influence on Miles Davis? Just thinking of 'octave skipping'...this is a serious question. I often want to know more about technique...Mingus for me is exemplary on that bass, it has it own 'legato'...!
@@edwardwhittaker5728 Well I would say Charlie Parker, taught Miles, and Dolphy was certainly influenced by Bird. As was Trane with Diz, and round it goes.
@@timscarrow9151 Thanks Tim...I note the sax player...reminds me of Wayne Shorter...
Mingus is always looking for new musical horizons
That’s one killer piano solo! God damn, he builds it so well, while still keeping a strong base in the blues. The whole band is amazing, though, and Eric Dolphy, like always, goes fucking crazy during his solo. Love it!
Bittersweet vibes -- how deeply beautiful human beings can be
Eric Dolphy.
And to think he made The black saint and sinner lady a year before its just mindblowing. Genius!
A musician who is a musical genius mingus is a tremendous composer and writer in the jazz genre bravo 👏 🙌 👍 😀
Mingus was a rare bandleader who could assemble geniuses into a tight ensemble..not an easy thing to do!
That was somethin' else. I needed that.
As I watch, I can't help but wonder why all of this great music gone away. Please come back!
This great music belonged to these great but mostly suffering musicians and their global audiences (this performance took place in Norway). They showed respect to the music they performed even with their outfits. My personal view is that we, the contemporary audience, are just visitors to the Museum of Jazz...
What a masterpiece of a musical trip this is !
So painfully sad that Eric would only be around for another few months...
He left for Europe so I've read? I'm just figuring this out. I don't listen to jazz. Besides this. It's new to me
@@kryptichands968then I think he died a few months after this unfortunately. Gives the title of the song a more somber tone.
This is some of the best stuff i have heard Dolphy ever play. He is an absolute genius like Parker and Coltrane in my opinion. The sounds he generates and what he plays is absolutely mind blowing. Even when playing with Coltrane takes the stuff to another level! If those 2 would have been alive now I cant imagine!
inspired by his bandmates for sure!!
@@kenkovar2647 mmm and vice versa... Mingus never reached these peaks again. It was more than a leader-sideman relation. Dolphy had the strange characteristic of getting out the best from the men he worked with and being leader even without leading.... he was even a bit not at his best as a leader: he was getting his best just slightly before dieing (his Out to lunch his an absolute masterpiece and his best achievement as a leader....but it came really late - he was already 36 - ... and unluckily he died shortly after recording it.)
Man alive, there’s Mingus then there’s the rest.
You said it
Theres also Dolphy
Mingus was great, but if you are talking about his bass playing, then you should watch Niels Henning Oster Petersen (NHOP).
True. Christian McBride is pretty close.
Listening in 2020 . What a sound!,,, this is the real thing.. .. and mounin from the album is a masterpiece.!,,,,, The Best of the excellent......
Yes...unbelievable to watch these musical giants "live" in 2020. What a fabulous bunch of players!
This entire set just keeps getting better, so if you’ve only checked out this opener, find the rest.
Mingus had his first breakdown upon Dolphy's death. He thought the Germans had poisoed him. It is remarkable Dophy, Flo Jo, Beach Boy Mike Love, writer Charles Bukowski, Love's Arthur Lee all went to Dorsey High School in L.A!
I know it's all about Eric, but Clifford Jordan bringing HEAT on that solo. OH MY!
jaki byard too
Also, Johnny Cole's reaction to Dolphy at 18:35 is why it is so wonderful to have videos of these performances! Bemused delight!
His eyebrows just rise by themselves 😅
It's truly amazing how much we can learn from Eric. Talking about thinking outside the box - musically he never thought within ...
Yep, great master of SOUND EFFECTS....but not much else, IMO.
@@jimrich4192 Not much else?
Jim, you gotta be kidding. Mingus was one of the true geniuses in music.
Get a little educated about his composing, band leading and bass playing and enjoy that man’s beauty he created for us.
@@pashadyne He's trying to be "edgy". Those types of assholes are all over the net. Bestt to ignore them...
Thanks for sharing!
This band is just spectacular!!
Dolphe was out of this world ... in another stratosphere musically!!🎶🎼🎵
I'm just glad to hear this, again!!
Cheers to some fantastic musicians!!💯
One of the most innovative groups in the history of the medium.
That was the most amazing thing to watch, the way those guys played together I just don't have words for it. Man!
Now we have to endure "celebrities": Wynton Marsalis, Brad Meldau, Kurt Elling, etc.......
For sure , the Wordl is much worse without these guys 😥
@@oscargrillo9508 Big shits compare to this
Another magical moment in time captured on video! Thank you.
check that dolphy. wow. out of the leagues. completely something else. not on the same level at all. now i understand why he is that genius. he doesn't give rats ass about nothing besides expression, whatever form-rhythm-effect-melody that takes it to express it. just unbelievable.
Well said bang on.
a true inspiration
How can you say that they're not on the same level? Did you even hear how's the band comping him?
Eric is a hell of a saxophone player, coupled with Mingus man thats deep, Eric steals the show
This is royalty! Beautiful to see & hear!
yep
Mr. Byard's piano solo was very interesting to listen to - the organic nature of jazz was apparent when Mingus and Richmond totally locked down jnto a clocked groove. They sounded as if they were ready to take-off!
Such splendidly over the top drumming. Mingus must have wanted it that way.
I watch it again and again, but it still makes me laugh like the first time, this expression on Johnny Coles' face at 18:40, I don't get over it 😂
Clifford Jordan so great and so underrated
For real! Been checking out Clifford plays LeadBelly and Night of the Mark VII. So good
One of the early Avant Guard Bands of the '60s and '70s.
Danny Richmond gets a huge sound from small trap set. Amazing how jazz drummers can do that...😉!
Yes 😂😂
Fantastic, happy to have come across this!
What an unbelievable story and song?
This is crazy great ❤
Fabulous
Absolutely amazing.
To say hi again might be truly priceless
Dolphy was immense and one of Mingus best pals, of course wilth Da
nny Richmond
so good, the blues at its best
18:03 seeing Clifford look at Johnny for that little fill idea was really cool. Finding time, improvising, & displaying time signatures & how many times to play a note by hand. Golden Recording!!! Dannie’s drum solo is fire. Love the, “Here ya go Eric” at 16:26
I think Dannie actually said “go ahead” or possibly “go to head” like of the chords
Wow!! Love this so much! 💥🚀
Beautiful.
Irascible and eye rolls from the band. Then pure genius. This is how it must have been, I can only imagine.
Scott Murray irascible? Mingus? naaah!!!
SIMPLY AMAZING AND SWINGING!
Dannie Richmond the baddest
Loved it!!
Tres cool, man.
kind of interesting to compare this with the MilesTonyWayneHerbieRon band at the same time. They both took the "inside-outside" form/no form approach. But Mingus was more attached to the roots and the blues, and the people he hired reflected that. They both were the pinnacle of what a small band can do.
Love the work of both groups, and basically agree. However, if I had to be trapped in Hell with one or the other, I know these six cats would be the best company on and off the bandstand! Mingus was a much more rounded and technically and conceptually acomplished musician than Miles, far less commercial in his directions, and, as you suggest, more rooted in the tradition. His bands emanated a character and vibrancy that I don't think the Davis quintet could match, as a unit. {Shorter's own recorded work often comes closer in that regard}. I also feel that the Mingus group was full of great contributors whose innovations went under the radar more than those associated with Miles, while being just as valid and timely. - Anyway, at least we beggars CAN be choosers. eh !
@@jazzwarrior7206yeah, mingus, clifford jordan, dolphy, danny, jaki, curson,and roland deserved more respect and an easier life, same with pullen, adams, not to mention bob neloms and ricky ford. Miles and the second quintet got their just deserts, nice houses in california, as much work as they wanted, and global respect. Mingus was a salty guy and didn't make life easy for himself or the people he worked with. BTW, trapped in Hell with this band...are you sure you're not in heaven?
@@esiegel2 Yes indeed, an imbalance we have seen all too often, not only in jazz of course, but wherever big-business and art mix. Miles was a pretty salty dude and all, but I guess his place was assured through other criteria. Re Hell vs Heaven : I guess I was thinking that, EVEN in Hell, one would be 'in Heaven' with those guys! - I think too, in Miles' or Mingus' cases, their entry to Heaven, or not, might depend on how much their musical contributions figure in the entry criteria, otherwise it's probably off to hell for those two boys! Either way, if I was sitting in Purgatory, looked out the window and saw ANY of them wandering past, I'd be off following them without thought as to the destination, but not until I had waited long enough for Coltrane to cruise by!
@@jazzwarrior7206 you know the joke about a jazz musician who dies and goes to heaven. There he sees a band with bud powell paul chambers john Coltrane and many other greats. The first solo is taken by a man with a white beard, fine threads, and shades. And he sucks. The newly arrived musician turns to the guy next to and looks quizzical. The second guy says, oh you must be new hers that’s god and he thinks he is miles Davis
@@esiegel2 Ha ha! I didn't know it, but here's an original (as far as I know!?!) :
A perplexed St. Peter was presented with a certain Mr Miles Dewey Davis III at the pearly gates for 'check in'. "Mr Davis ...", said the saint, "I'm not sure that you have been brought to the right place". He went on : "Your behavior record shows numerous sins and offenses which necessarily incur exclusion from Heaven, including extensive licentious sexual activity, habitual and unrepentant anger and violence, a near-lifetime's worth of serious abuse of several varieties of hard narcotics, and complete non-attendance at, or respect for, the church."
Miles, brandishing a vinyl copy of 'A Kind of Blue', rasped, " Yeah ... but I also made THIS !" St Peter replied, " - Oh ... I see! ... Welcome to Heaven, Brother Davis!"
20:25 just when you think Eric doesnt have any more gears, he pulls this shit out lol. Clifford and Johnny can't do anything else but laugh. Pure genius
Just when you think he can’t get any MORE out, he takes off on a rocket to the Andromeda galaxy.
Eric Dolphy - wow!
So Very Good
That was Unfuckingbeliviable!!!
Masters of the instruments!,,,,,,,
Yes 😂🤣😂
Took trumpet lessons with Jimmy Knepper's wife, Maxine. She knew all of these people.
Stellar
16:24 hahah "go ahead" after already playing tons of hints that the solo is over
16:25 "Go Eric!"
And he went
burns down the joint
Yes 😂😂
This is amazing.
Thank you for this footage
Magic, pure and simple
not that simple :)
Simple...but...
play it, Mr. Mingus! alright now!
Mingus *Doctor groove* amazing!!!
hella great rhythm change on this...takin' it to another level/.....Mingus & Daniel. really communicating.....Mr. Byard adding a little Blues/Swing......Mingus havin' fum walkin' that Bass !!
rhythm changes? actually it's a blues...
GOAT!!!!!! Thanks for this live performance, it confirms that these great prophets were heavenly sent (this was/is God's jazz band). During the late 70's I was fortunate to purchase "The great concerts of Eric's prestige 3 LP volumes, featuring Blackwell, Davis, Little & Waldron" and I started having interest on searching for more of the so called 'Great Concerts' until I found the CM great concerts 3 LP volumes America label. I'm still enjoying these recordings on each and every Sunday afternoon. Was this the same live performance where the trumpeter (Johnny Coles) collapsed on stage at the end of the same track 'So long Eric don't stay over there too long'?. Unbelievable!!!!!!!
Drei mal gehört/gesehen - hintereinander - eine Ahnung von Vollkommenheit in einer unvollkommenen Welt! Pures Glück! Danke!
AMAZING.
Thank you for posting.
So sad Eric died not long after this
Glorious.
Astonishing!
SPETTACOLARE!!
Great!!! one of the hotest band ever!
sure
an indescribable giant gift to the world. I am eternally grateful. responsible for preventing who knows how many suicides...
unbelievable!!!
Yeah, Jaki! Just looking at the date of this - Eric passed away two months later in Berlin.
Danny Richmond!
At last, a bit of free. Great Eric.
these guys cook!! Nice upload.
Great video!
Dolphy was so much more far out than the rest of that band...when he starts to play it's like a visitor from the distant future has arrived.
PZ > Well, this is the future and, unfortunately, nobody nowadays plays anything like that. They don't even try... sad
Espectacular
love it!!
Muchas gracias !!
FANTÁSTICO!
Trio superbo ! )
Thank you
''There you go Eric'
'
-Dannie Richmond (1964)
GREAT!!!!