Ken McIntyre & Eric Dolphy

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Ken McIntyre and Eric Dolphy co-led a session for Prestige/New Jazz in 1960, released as Looking Ahead (NJLP 8247). Liner notes by Ira Gitler: Since jazz is a social music, the prevailing atmosphere has much to do with shaping the direction it takes. Jazz is representative of its time and conversely the time must be right for a particular type of jazz expression to receive a thorough and enthusiastic hearing. When an innovation seems to burst full-blown in our midst, it is actually the result of a long process ofplaying by one or more musicians. Jazz is constantly undergoing change in a dynamic pattern that includes regression and retrenchment as well as progress. It is merely that we often do not perceive change until it is upon us. If Ornette Coleman has done nothing else since arriving to cause a furor in jazz circles, he has helped to open the way for others who, in their own way, are presenting different ideas. Two alto saxophonists who bear some peripheral similarities to Coleman, although basically taking a more formal approach, are Ken McIntyre and Eric Dolphy. Coleman discards chord sequences even when he is not playing his own compositions with his own group. I heard him sit in with Clark Terry at the Village Gate one afternoon. They played Charlie Parker's Donna Lee, which is based on the chord sequence of Back Home Again In Indiana. Coleman played Parker's line but his solo choruses were as far from Indiana as Nome, Alaska. McIntyre and Dolphy, while explorin

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Looking Ahead

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Looking Ahead (Remastered 2025)

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Looking Ahead (Reissue)

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The Jazz Giants Play George Gershwin: 's Wonderful

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Looking Ahead (1956 - 1965)

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The Jazz Giants Play George Gershwin- 'S Wonderful

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Looking Ahead (1960) Remastered 1993

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I Got Rhythm

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Astaireway To Heaven

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Original Jazz Sound: Looking Ahead

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