I wonder what their high school jazz band sounded like...

... or the pep band, for that matter...

[Coleman] attended I.M. Terrell High School, a veritable seedbed of modern American jazz. Three... of his future bandmates — the saxophonist Dewey Redman and the drummers Charles Moffett and Ronald Shannon Jackson — were graduates, as were the saxophonists King Curtis, Prince Lasha and Julius Hemphill; the clarinetist John Carter; and Red Connor, a bebop tenor saxophonist who, Mr. Coleman said, influenced him by playing jazz as “an idea” rather than as a series of patterns.