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    Child in the Hand

    May 08, 2021 2 minutes
    BY COLIN FLEMING

    f the obvious titans of 1960s jazz—Miles, Coltrane, Mingus, Ornette—are fingers that point the way forward, Eric Dolphy is the webbing at the base of the digits that provides the formal unity. In sports, they’d call him a “glue guy,” only instead of holding a team together, Dolphy helped shape movements. And unlike athletic glue guys, with their utility component, Dolphy was an MVP-caliber contributor, the best

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