Mostly Other People's killer liner notes

Ornette was and is extremely aware of both how his music fits into a greater historical narrative, and how it challenges conventional history by questioning the concepts of musical "value," "hierarchy," and "quality." By following his lead, and the contributions made by Charles Mingus, the AACM, the ICP Orchestra, Clusone Three, and others, we have arrived at the conclusion that non-linearity, stratification and fragmentation of musical ideas create the kind of jazz we love to play. . . When the Ornette Coleman Quartet performs a piece, traditional notions of "correct/incorrect," in-tune/out-of-tune and "intentionality/actuality" disappear. . .For the past forty years, Ornette's groups have stressed an interactive approach to group improvisation helping to liberate rhythm section players. His ideas combined with those of Attali, Cage, Bailey, etc., have helped us to think about group performance as a social experience, one in which the exchange of ideas is constantly in flux, and no one is quite sure who (if anyone) is actually leading the conversation.