For those interested in going to school on Eric Dolphy, Out Here, an album by vocalist Mary LaRose featuring arrangements by her longtime partner Jeff Lederer, presents a bounty of surprises.
Dolphy’s dominant identity stems from the jagged, incandescent passages he played on a vast array of woodwind instruments alongside Coltrane, Mingus, and Oliver Nelson and in his own catalog, topped by his magnum opus, . While cherishing this fiery Dolphy,