“The chaos of Coleman’s formation is very disturbing (a disorder of dots that are very hard to connect), and yet he went on to write one of the most brilliant works of jazz composition, ‘Lonely Woman,’ led the most handsome and hippest quartets of his moment, formed a close relationship with the most elegant and educated black jazz pianists of the 20th century (John Lewis), and his contribution to the score of David Cronenberg’s brilliant film adaptation of William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch made it even more brilliant.”