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I enjoyed the Slate article, but I think oversimplify a bit for the general audience. Modal jazz does not appear out of the blue but is part of a pattern of innovations including Cool jazz, hard bop, etc... Ornette had already developed his approach by 50 too. A technical point: you state that a scale consists of 12 notes. That would only be true of the chromatic scale.