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Scope and Content Note
The Eric Dolphy Collection is comprised of approximately 250 lead sheets, scores, sketches, and exercises for works composed by Dolphy and others. The collection includes holograph scores, sketches, and parts for Outward Bound, Out There, and Out to Lunch, the latter widely considered to be Dolphy's magnum opus. Included as well are three sketchbooks in Dolphy's hand filled with lead sheets, sketches, and studies. The collection also contains printed and manuscript works by Gunther Schuller, Charles Mingus, Jaki Byard, and other composers, and a promotional program chronicling a concert, "Concert Four" (1962), with Gunther Schuller and featuring Dolphy.