"Her husband sculptor Melvin Edwards is well known for his series ???Lynch Fragments??? and ???Rockers.??? When Ms. Cortez was a teenager in California, musicians including Don Cherry hung out at her family???s home because she had (as Cherry said) ???the best record collection,??? and through them she met Ornette Coleman, to whom she was married from 1954 to ???64 and with whom she kept in contact" . . . .