Ornette Coleman's Liner Notes to Don Cherry's WHERE IS BROOKLYN?
The most rewarding state of today's music is its newness whatever its categories, the new thing as today's jazz composer and performers are called is just as the title, these inventors seek to express the jazz state of inventors, it is at its most high and has been for the last five years, Don Cherry has certainly had his position in this new music over a decade or more as it has been for the other players on this album, Blackwell, Pharoah, and Henry are some of the best inventors of this new music. For those who might not know the inside meaning of the term (the new thing) one of the easy ways of remembering its meaning is "a music in which one invents that outdates their own writing or playing, without using the rules of repetition." And this music has root in this form just as man has broken away from the earth gravity to seek other forms of matter so has the form of expression in all communicating thoughts, Don Cherry is a man of creative inventiveness and it wo...