Editing Eric Dolphy (section)

=== European career ===
After ''[[Out to Lunch!]]'' and an appearance on pianist/composer [[Andrew Hill (jazz musician)|Andrew Hill]]'s Blue Note album ''[[Point of Departure (Andrew Hill album)|Point of Departure]]'', Dolphy left for Europe with Charles Mingus' sextet in early 1964. Before a concert in [[Oslo]], Norway, he informed Mingus that he planned to stay in Europe after their tour was finished, partly because he had become disillusioned with the United States' reception of musicians who were trying something new. Mingus then named the blues they had been performing "So Long Eric". Dolphy intended to settle in Europe with his fiancée Joyce Mordecai, who was working in the ballet scene in [[Paris]], France.<ref name= Ratliff /> After leaving Mingus, he performed and recorded a few sides with various European bands, and American musicians living in Paris, such as [[Donald Byrd]] and [[Nathan Davis (saxophonist)|Nathan Davis]]. ''[[Last Date (Eric Dolphy album)|Last Date]]'', originally a radio broadcast of a concert in [[Hilversum]] in the Netherlands, features [[Misha Mengelberg]] and [[Han Bennink]], although it was not Dolphy's last public performance. Dolphy was also planning to join [[Albert Ayler]]'s group,<ref name= sparked /> and, according to Jeanne Phillips, quoted in [[A. B. Spellman]]'s ''Four Jazz Lives'', was preparing himself to play with [[Cecil Taylor]].<ref>{{cite book | last =Spellman | first =A.B. | author-link = A. B. Spellman | title =Four Jazz Lives | publisher =University of Michigan Press | year = 2004 | pages=15 | quote=Eric had all Cecil's records, and his whole thing is that he wanted to play with Cecil. Eric... used to say, 'I think I'm learning how to play with Cecil.' He kept on saying this to me because he didn't feel like he could say it to Cecil... It was the weirdest thing. Before Eric went to Europe, he told me about a dream he had had. He dreamt he was on the bandstand with Cecil and another clarinet player... he was waiting for his turn to play. He said he kept saying to himself, 'At last, I'm going to play with Cecil.' And before he could play, he fell down dead on the bandstand. This was the last time I talked to him before he went to Europe, and the next thing I heard, Eric had died of a heart attack on the stage in Berlin. It was the weirdest thing.}}</ref> He also planned to form a band with [[Woody Shaw]], Richard Davis, and [[Billy Higgins]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/impressions-of-eric-dolphy-eric-dolphy-by-clifford-allen.php |title=Impressions Of Eric Dolphy |last=Allen |first=Clifford |date=March 12, 2008 |website=All About Jazz |access-date=June 18, 2020 |archive-date=November 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109021742/https://www.allaboutjazz.com/impressions-of-eric-dolphy-eric-dolphy-by-clifford-allen.php |url-status=live }}</ref> and was writing a [[string quartet]], ''Love Suite''.<ref name="baker" />