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began So Long Eric by playing the melody on his bass. Mingus had endlessly creative ways to conclude this piece. Every documented version illustrates a ...
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Copyright © 1975 JAZZ WORKSHOP, INe. International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved

o Long Eric is not a eulogy but rather a complaint: Eric Dolphy had announced that he would be leaving Mingus' group while they were on tour in Europe in the spring of 1964. Sadly, Dolphy died shortly afterward in Berlin on June 29, 1964. This simple blues piece demonstrates Mingus' love for melodies based on upper chord structures, a rhythmic shifting of gears which some call metric modulation, and effective dynamics. Mingus often began So Long Eric by playing the melody on his bass. Mingus had endlessly creative ways to conclude this piece. Every documented version illustrates a different possibi!ity for the ending. So Long Eric was recorded by Jazz WorkshoplFantasy on April 4, 1964; by America/Prestige on April 18, 1964, Paris; by the C.B.C. October 31, 1964, for a television program; and by several bootleg companies. It was also recorded by Jazz WorkshoplPrestige on May q, 1965. After more than ten years of neglect, So Long Eric was revived in July of 1977 in Scandinavia and later that fall in New York.

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