Steve Lake has three meetings and two dinners with the general-in-chief harmolody. Is Ornette going to change the face of funk or turn into Matisse? And where do The Jam Jivers fit into all this? This article originally appeared in The Wire 19 (September 1985).

Prime time and the great quartet; an exclusive report on the recording of Ornette: In All Languages. This article originally appeared in The Wire 40 (June 1987).