My sense of what might actually have happened is that Coleman didn’t make music cues to support the moods of specific scenes in the movie. He just provided Rooks with about 80 minutes of music in twenty minute chunks for a movie that runs about 80 minutes.

There really would have been no way for Rooks to have used the score that Coleman provided without chopping it up into very short pieces so that the film’s dialog, sound effects, etc could also be heard.

If Rooks had done that to Coleman’s score, you’d be writing a blog post about how Rooks had done a disservice to Coleman’s music by deleting most of it. Rooks couldn’t have known at the time that the music wouldn’t get released well and would be considered one of Coleman’s most fugitive records.

Still, I think Rooks made the right decision: better to be known as someone who couldn’t figure out how to cut up a long work by a master musician without losing most of it than to be known as the guy who DID cut it up.