Something Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman

Recorded in 1958, Something Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman captures Coleman's early move away from hard bop toward freer, more open forms of jazz. The album foregrounds melody-driven improvisation and collective interplay over fixed chord changes, featuring a spare, elastic rhythmic feel and a distinctive, raw alto sax voice that emphasizes contour and phrasing. Its direct, sometimes folklike themes and flexible approach to harmony and time make the record an early statement of the directions that would come to be associated with free jazz and post-bop.