Grant Green Hard bop created a comfortable setting for a suite of great blues-influenced guitar players who led the way toward soul jazz. Several of these players were from the mid-west – Wes Montgomery from Indianapolis, Grant Green from St. Louis and Detroit’s Kenny Burrell. The next three hours of Jazz at 100 will present […]
Oliver Nelson
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Jazz at 100 Hour 71: Silenced in Their Prime – Eric Dolphy & Booker Little (1961 – 1964)
Eric Dolphy – Booker Little at the Five Spot From his first recordings with Chico Hamilton in 1958 until his unnecessary death from misdiagnosed diabetic shock in 1964, Eric Dolphy was limited to only six years in which to record the music that has defined his extraordinary legacy. Previously, in this series, we have heard from […]