The Elite Syncopations Jazz Radio Show | 26, July 2012

Rosedale Cemetery, 1831 W. Washington Blvd, Los Angeles — April 26, 1981 — photo by Mark Weber

The Elite Syncopations Jazz Radio Show

July 26, 2o12

83 minutes of jazz @ Noon every Thursday
Host MARK WEBER

KUNM Albuquerque, USA
89.9 FM (Mountain Standard Time)
also streaming on the web > KUNM.org

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As the idea of Eric Dolphy fades further into the past I reflect upon how much he meant to my generation — If I remember correctly the first Dolphy I heard was his album OUT TO LUNCH, but it could have been LAST DATE, those two albums were magical to me, I have such fond memories of the excitement I had for this music, those giant intervallic jumps of Dolphy on bass clarinet, the fleet alto incisiveness — and the photos of Dophy were inspiring as an ideal of bohemianism (he was very photogenic) — one by one I bought every album of Dolphy’s from Tower Records on Sunset — I suspect Marty Krystall has the same early memories of Dolphy — we’ll ask him this Thursday on the radio show in a LIVE CONVERSATION from his home in Los Angeles via telephone.

Marty Krystall has absolute command of the bass clarinet, his tone and attack and shaping of notes is effortless — I might even venture he is the best I’ve ever heard on that instrument.

When I think about Marty I think about what is it that makes an artist in America these days? It is certainly not anything you choose as a “career” — rather, you are born to it — so, then, my further question is How is it that a person continues on this path? Marty came on the scene in the 1970s and if you ever heard him you never forgot him. I look forward to talking with him.

( I have subsequently had Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink autograph my Lp copy of LAST DATE.)

Eric Dolphy is buried in Rosedale Cemetery west of downtown Los Angeles, as is Art Tatum and Henry Miller — The Krystall Palace, where Marty and family live, overlooks this graveyard — where the past is laid to rest.

Rosedale Cemetery, 1831 W. Washington Blvd, Los Angeles — April 26, 1981 — photo by Mark Weber

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