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