Editing Eric Dolphy (section)

====John Coltrane====
Dolphy and [[John Coltrane]] knew each other long before they formally played together, having met when Coltrane was in Los Angeles with [[Johnny Hodges]] in 1954.<ref>{{cite book | last = Porter | first = Lewis | author-link = Lewis Porter | title = John Coltrane: His Life and Music | publisher = The University of Michigan Press | year = 1999 | pages=94 }}</ref><ref name="Ratliff 2007 68">{{cite book | last = Ratliff | first = Ben | author-link = Ben Ratliff | title = Coltrane: The Story of a Sound | publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux | year = 2007 | pages=68 }}</ref> They would often exchange ideas and learn from each other,<ref name="thomas_80">{{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=80 }}</ref> and eventually, after many nights sitting in with Coltrane's band, Dolphy was asked to become a full member in early 1961.<ref>{{cite book | last = Porter | first = Lewis | author-link = Lewis Porter | title = John Coltrane: His Life and Music | publisher = The University of Michigan Press | year = 1999 | pages=192 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Thomas | first = J.C. | title = Chasin' the Trane | publisher = Da Capo Press | year = 1975 | pages=142 }}</ref> Coltrane had gained an audience and critical notice with [[Miles Davis]]'s quintet, but alienated some leading jazz critics when he began to move away from [[hard bop]]. Although Coltrane's quintets with Dolphy (including the ''[[The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings|Village Vanguard]]'' and ''[[Africa/Brass]]'' sessions) are now accepted, they originally provoked ''[[DownBeat]]'' magazine to brand Coltrane and Dolphy's music as 'anti-jazz'. Coltrane later said of this criticism: "they made it appear that we didn't even know the first thing about music (...) it hurt me to see [Dolphy] get hurt in this thing."<ref name="Kofsky">{{cite book| first= Eric| last= Dolphy| interviewer= [[Frank Kofsky]] | title= Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music| year= 1973| page= 242| publisher= University of Pittsburgh }}</ref>

The initial release of Coltrane's residency at the Vanguard selected [[Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard|three tracks]], only one of which featured Dolphy. After being issued haphazardly over the next 30 years, a comprehensive [[box-set]] featuring the music recorded at the Vanguard was released on ''[[Impulse! Records|Impulse!]]'' in 1997, called ''[[The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings]]''. The set features Dolphy heavily on both alto saxophone and bass clarinet, with Dolphy the featured soloist on their renditions of "[[Naima]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/complete-1961-village-vanguard-recordings-mw0000026678 |title=John Coltrane: Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings |last=Jurek |first=Thom |website=AllMusic.com |access-date=May 21, 2020 |archive-date=September 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927164419/https://www.allmusic.com/album/complete-1961-village-vanguard-recordings-mw0000026678 |url-status=live }}</ref> A 2001 [[Pablo Records|Pablo]] box set, drawing on recordings of Coltrane's performances from his European tours of the early 1960s, features tunes absent from the 1961 Village Vanguard material, such as "[[My Favorite Things (song)|My Favorite Things]]", which Dolphy performs on flute.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-trane-the-european-tours-mw0000591728 |title=John Coltrane: Live Trane: The European Tours |last=Dryden |first=Ken |website=AllMusic.com |access-date=May 21, 2020}}</ref>