Ornette lives

BTW, Ornette's still playing (he's 75); check out this fan's recent review. Here's a quote:

...he looked frail but supercool. Wearing a snazzy whitish/yellow? suit (the lighting disguised the actual colour) and one of those pork-pie hats with the little feather in the side that if I wore would make me look like a cheesy bookmaker at the racetrack but on him looked – a Hat Supreme. He also played trumpet and a smattering of violin – and the old controversies about his mastery or otherwise of his secondary instruments seemed irrelevant. The trumpet was fluid, plaintive, the violin just right – I’ve heard him play wilder stuff on record – but tonight it just blended into the string driven sound so well.