Coleman and Dylan converged on the Village scene in the same season

Evidence

Dylan’s brilliance as a social critic was confirmed. But, as he ascended, another self-invented musical genius was increasingly frustrated. Ornette Coleman played his last gig at the Five Spot in September 1961 exactly when, a few blocks west, Dylan was opening for the Greenbriar Boys at Gerde’s. In less than two years since his sensational New York debut, Coleman had released five LPs on Atlantic—The Shape of Jazz to Come, Change of the Century, This Is Our Music, Free Jazz, and Ornette! — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 389