"Eric Dolphy’s legacy is well represented by these performances from The Five Spot
and the sessions supervised by Alan Douglas. They confirm him to be an artist who
straddled the divide then so deep in jazz, drawing sustenance from the music’s past
as he cleared a path to its future. Dolphy’s was a sensibility that could celebrate
Fats Waller and honor Jomo Kenyatta, its inclusiveness rare in the polarized early
1960s. Fortunately, his example has not simply endured, but has become more
resonant sixty years on." – Bill Shoemaker