Eric Dolphy
Day 47
#24 – Eric Allan Dolphy, Jr. (1928–1964). American jazz alto saxophonist, flutist and bass clarinetist. Albums include: At the Five Spot (1961), Out to Lunch (1964) and in partnership, Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1960).
Listening to a few tracks from ‘Out to Lunch’ I wanted to try and capture what was going on in the music. Five musicians, working together, trying out new things, sometimes flowing together but often not. I started sketching and moved the pen to the sounds of the music. It looked jagged, out of place but came together as a whole. Whilst sketching it led me to think about using different typefaces and using five overlapping typefaces to represent the five musicians on the ‘Out to Lunch’ album. I changed the sizes of the words to reinforce this idea of changes in the music.
2.5 hours
Listen...
to excerpts from the album ‘Out to Lunch’