I always found his harmolodic concepts interesting, if delivered unevenly. I feel like some of his proteges did a better job implementing the ideas that Ornette

I always found his harmolodic concepts interesting, if delivered unevenly. I feel like some of his proteges did a better job implementing the ideas that Ornette did sometimes (e.g. Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, or some of Jamaaladeen Tacumas stuff) but in general Ornette was brilliant and interesting. True story digression: went to an Ornette concert with my Missus at the time, and a pair of friends. One of them disappears right before the show from a cigarette break. After the show we find her and ask where she went...she had run into Tom Waits out front, who bummed a light from her and as a reward asked if she wanted to sit with his family in their box seats. Who would say no to that offer?