 Dolphy occasionally recorded unaccompanied saxophone solos; his only predecessors were the tenor players Coleman Hawkins (most notably "Picasso", 1948) and Sonny Rollins (for example "Body and Soul", 1958), making Dolphy the first to do so on alto.The album "Far Cry" contains his performance of the Gross-Lawrence standard "Tenderly" on alto saxophone, and, on his subsequent tour of Europe, Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child" was featured in his sets.