By the way that's a cute hat, and a smile so hard to resist...

[Keith McMullen]

I agree that he is an amalgam (character-as-concept), but with a  
heavy dose of Ornette Coleman. Sphere's quartet was piano-less, as  
were Coleman's early quartets, plus "The solos of McClintic Sphere  
were something else." (V., p.59)

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On Dec 10, 2006, at 7:54 PM, Will Layman wrote:

Always seemed to me that McClintic wasn't any one musician -- more an  
amalgam.  In some ways, he reminds me of some of the West Coast  
musicians of the '50s too, like Gerry Mulligan, who appears  
indirectly in "Entropy".

-- Will Layman