"Fittingly unconventional. . . . Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure is an atlas in prose, a guide to the territories of varied sorts–social, racial, aesthetic, economic, and even geographic–that Coleman came out of, traveled through, lived near, occupied, left behind, or transformed. . . . Golia covers a lot of territory in tight, direct language that illuminates Ornette Coleman's life and work. . . . Most impressively, perhaps, she devotes a sizable section to Coleman's cryptic and elliptical philosophy of music, which he called Harmolodics, without straining to defend it with academic triple-talk or dismissing it."–David Hajdu "New York Times Book Review"