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 would be unnatural for him not to seek and bring about the new forms in his talent as a composer and performer the compositions as well as their titles are all in the form of the new thing, in music of the improvising world. These men playing here can always be counted on for a first-class performance because love lives in their heart for the true expression of the human warmth, the many unknown musicians to the world are not unknown in the heart of musicians on this record and these kind of beings bring the unknown musician to the heart of the worlds of music lover. The future of improvised music and its many written forms shall never become outdated as in the images of styles because the live force of creating is becoming its own existence. Blessed are the musicians of tomorrow because today's musicians are building the eternal houses of being and Don Cherry, Edward Blackwell, Pharoah Sanders, and Henry Grimes do exist as their existence is in the form of music, if you question the meaning and placement of this music in your life living, then you have been baptized, if the music doesn't cause you to question its meaning and placement in your life don't blame Cherry, Blackwell, Pharoah, and Henry.

— Ornette Coleman, 1966

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Buy the album here (Blue Note webpage here). Every sentence is an unmistakably Ornette invention, but I think this sentence resonates the most for me at this moment in time:

The future of improvised music and its many written forms shall never become outdated as in the images of styles because the live force of creating is becoming its own existence.