Newark's gift to jazz; a genius saxophone improvisor and composer. He was an oddball from the start, in the hard bop context of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, trying to start mid-sentence and work his way to both ends simultaneously. It led to his innovative tunes in Miles Davis' group and his own. From there he co-founded Weather Report, helping to homogenize fusion while resisting its inevitable rush to schlock. He can still play when he wants to - but does he?