Dolphy

“It’s very schizophrenic,” says Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez, who fuses together global politics, subterfuge and the freedom cries of jazz giants such as Max Roach, Eric Dolphy, Abbey Lincoln and John Coltrane as if they’re of a piece.

She’s pretty wide open and into jazz artists like Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane.

In the early ’60s, Eric Dolphy had had a tremendous impact on him, and if you look at the things they did together, you can hear that.

“We want them to have associations with Eric Dolphy or very early Bill Evans or Thelonious Monk.”

The flute doesn’t have the gravitas or the boisterous sound of a saxophone or a trumpet, and it didn’t fully infiltrate the realm of improvised music until the 1960s, with the likes of Yusef Lateef, Eric Dolphy, Herbie Mann and Hubert Laws — not to mention the salsa and pachanga scene in New York, where the flutist, bandleader and record executive Johnny Pacheco was a major presence.