Eric Dolphy

American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist Born June 20, 1928 in Los Angeles, California, USA, died June 29, 1964 in West Berlin, Germany His earliest recordings at the end of the 1940s were with on the west coast, but it took almost a decade before Dolphy's albums with brought him to wider attention. From 1958, he was based in New York City and shared an apartment with for a time. Some of his…