
Shirley Clarke
Director

It captures Ornette's evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas in 1983, it chronicles his boyhood in segregated Texas and his subsequent emergence as an American cultural pioneer and world-class icon.
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Shirley Clarke
Director

William S. Burroughs
Self
Brion Gysin
Self
Don Cherry
Self
George Russell
Self - jazz pianist and composer
Ornette Coleman
Self
Robert Palmer
Self - writer and musicologist
Denardo Coleman
Self

James Clay
Self
John Rockwell
Self - music critic, The New York Times
Eugene Tatum
teenage Ornette
John Giordano
Self - orchestra conductor
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Themselves
Prime Time
Themselves
Jayne Cortez
Self
Truvenza Leach
Self - Ornette Coleman's sister
Martin Williams
Self - jazz critic and writer

Charlie Haden
Self
Demon Marshall
Young Ornette