Editing Eric Dolphy (section)

==Early life, family and education==
Eric Dolphy was born and raised in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]].<ref name="sparked">{{cite magazine| url= https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-eric-dolphy-deepened-my-love-of-jazz| magazine= [[The New Yorker]]| title= How Eric Dolphy Sparked My Love of Jazz| date= January 25, 2019| first= Richard| last= Brody| author-link= Richard Brody| access-date= March 3, 2020| archive-date= October 25, 2020| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201025060458/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-eric-dolphy-deepened-my-love-of-jazz| url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="Ratliff">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/arts/music/a-new-focus-on-eric-dolphy-in-washington-and-montclair.html |title=Jazz Enigma of the '60s Has an Encore |last=Ratliff |first=Ben |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 27, 2014 | access-date=May 24, 2020}}</ref> His parents were Sadie and Eric Dolphy, Sr.,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Simosko |first1=Vladimir |last2=Tepperman |first2=Barry |title=Eric Dolphy: A Musical Biography & Discography |publisher=Da Capo |year=1971 |page=27 }}</ref> who immigrated to the United States from [[Panama]].<ref name="baker" /> He began music lessons at the age of six, studying clarinet and saxophone privately.<ref name="thomas_76">{{cite book | last1=Thomas|first1=Lorenzo| last2=Nielsen|first2=Aldon|title=Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition | publisher=University of Michigan Press | location=Ann Arbor |year=2008 | pages=76 }}</ref> While still in junior high, he began to study the oboe, aspiring to a professional symphonic career,<ref name="thomas_76" /> and received a two-year scholarship to study at the music school of the [[University of Southern California]].<ref name= Ratliff /> When aged 13, he received a "Superior" award on clarinet from the California School Band and Orchestra festival.<ref name="thomas_76" /> He attended [[Susan Miller Dorsey High School|Dorsey High School]], where he continued his musical studies and learned additional instruments.<ref name="thomas_76" /> By 1946, he was co-director of the Youth Choir at the Westminster Presbyterian Church run by Reverend Hampton B. Hawes, father of the [[Hampton Hawes|jazz pianist of the same name.]]<ref name="thomas_76" /> He graduated in 1947, then attended [[Los Angeles City College]], during which time he played contemporary classical works such as [[Stravinsky]]'s ''[[L'Histoire du soldat]]'' and, along with [[Jimmy Knepper]] and [[Art Farmer]], performed with [[Roy Porter (drummer)|Roy Porter]]'s ''17 Beboppers''.<ref name="thomas_76" /> He went on to make eight recordings with Porter by 1949.<ref name="baker" /> On these early sessions, Dolphy occasionally played [[baritone saxophone]], as well as [[alto saxophone]], flute, and [[soprano clarinet]].

Dolphy entered the U.S. Army in 1950 and was stationed at [[Fort Lewis (Washington)|Fort Lewis]], Washington.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/dolphy-eric-1928-1964 |title=Eric Dolphy (1928–1964) |last=Walton |first=Peter |date=December 9, 2007 |website=BlackPast.org |access-date=June 24, 2020 |archive-date=June 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626210626/https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/dolphy-eric-1928-1964/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Beginning in 1952, he attended the [[United States Armed Forces School of Music|Navy School of Music]].<ref name="feather" /> Following his discharge in 1953, he returned to L.A., where he worked with many musicians, including [[Buddy Collette]], [[Eddie Beal]], and [[Gerald Wilson]],<ref name="feather" /> to whom he later dedicated the tune "G.W.", recorded on ''[[Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy album)|Outward Bound]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/outward-bound-eric-dolphy-prestige-records-review-by-douglas-payne.php |title=Eric Dolphy: Outward Bound |last=Payne |first=Douglas |date=November 1, 1999 |website=AllAboutJazz.com |access-date=May 21, 2020 |archive-date=June 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626064254/https://www.allaboutjazz.com/outward-bound-eric-dolphy-prestige-records-review-by-douglas-payne.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Dolphy often had friends come by to jam, enabled by the fact that his father had built a studio for him in the family's backyard.<ref name= Ratliff /> Recordings made in 1954 with [[Clifford Brown]] document this early period.<ref>{{cite book | last=Catalano|first=Nick| title=Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter | publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] | location=New York |year=2000 | pages=115–116 }}</ref>