To know Eric Dolphy, one need only to listen to him play "You Don't Know What Love Is" on Last Date. He treats his subject as a poet would, then as a philosopher, finally as a painter, and all the while singing like an angel through his music. As poet he textures phrase and meter to evoke high and inward emotion; as philosopher he restates the question--do you know love?--as painter he shows us nature's flora and fauna; and as an angel, his reed sings so sweetly that we can never forget. Listen and you will understand. Then there is such poignance because we know, perhaps he did too, that this was his Last Date. And he takes time to tell us the meaning of life and death. Eric's voice says, "When music is played, it floats in the air, never to be heard again." So after journeying through the attributes of love, Dolphy gives us a knowledge of truth. Each of us is like music. Our lives floating in air; our music stops; and our unique song ends. And so it was with the great Eric Dolphy.
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