He talks a lot about the "unexpected" things in life, it seems to me. Or about the expected things in unexpected ways.
For musicians of a certain "mind" Dolphy was/is impossible to ignore.
Henri Renauld, yes.
https://concord.com/concord-albums/the-birdlanders-vol-1/#:~:text=1,-BUY OR LISTEN&text=Creative as a player and,in the spring of 1954.
Charlie Smith on drums btw, the same guy who played on TV with Bird.