Yeah, I just heard in the car a little while ago. I've got him playing right now. One of the true giants. I never saw him, but saw Don Cherry once, which I've always claimed as enough of a one degree of separation moment. He's one of those artists who, when I first heard him, it didn't make any sense to me at all, I couldn't relate to it as music, etc. And then over time I'd hear him more and more often on some jazz station and it sounded less and less weird until I really started liking it and eventually loving it. A small part of that was me, but a huge part of it was him and the influence he had on so many other players who took it out in all sorts of different directions. Eventually there were enough people doing some version of free jazz that I started taking it for granted and then when I'd go back to the guy who started it, I started to really appreciate him...
"Dog spelled backwards is God. That's pretty heavy".
-Ray