Eric Dolphy w. the bass clarinet (photo: Chuck Stewart) Dolphy died too young, while touring in Europe in 1964, first with Mingus, then in other settings… He collapsed on stage in Berlin and was brought to a hospital. The attending hospital physicians had no idea that Dolphy was a diabetic and thought that he, like so many other jazz musicians, had overdosed on drugs, so he was left in a hospital bed until the drugs had run their course. Dolphy died on June 29, 1964 in a diabetic coma…

Eric Dolphy w. the bass clarinet (photo: Chuck Stewart)

Dolphy died too young, while touring in Europe in 1964, first with Mingus, then in other settings… He collapsed on stage in Berlin and was brought to a hospital. The attending hospital physicians had no idea that Dolphy was a diabetic and thought that he, like so many other jazz musicians, had overdosed on drugs, so he was left in a hospital bed until the drugs had run their course. Dolphy died on June 29, 1964 in a diabetic coma…

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