Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index McClintic Sphere is a character in "V" by Thomas Pynchon. There is a description of a gig in Greenwich Village, possibly at the Five Spot, based on the Ornette Coleman Quartet with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins (or Ed Blackwell?) around 1960. Sphere is Ornette. Sphere is also Thelonious Monk's middle name. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.