Something Else!!!!

Something Else!!!!

Infobox Album
Name = Something Else!!!!
Type = studio
Artist = Ornette Coleman


Released = 1958
Recorded = February 10 1958 – March 24 1958
Genre = Jazz
Length = 42:15
Label = Contemporary
Producer = Lester Koenig
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wm03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wzfqxqtgldfe~T1 link]
*Yahoo! Music [http://music.yahoo.com/read/review/12028463 link]
Last album =
This album = "Something Else!!!!" (1958)
Next album = "Tomorrow Is the Question!" (1959)

"Something Else!!!!" (sometimes called "Something Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman") is the 1958 debut album by jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman. According to All Music, the album "shook up the jazz world", revitalizing the union of blues and jazz and restoring "blues to their 'classic' beginnings in African music". [allmusicguide |id=wzfqxqtgldfe~T1] It is unusual in Coleman's output in that it features a conventional bebop quintet instrumentation (saxophone, trumpet, piano, bass and drums); after this album, Coleman would discard the piano, creating a starker and more fluid sound.

History

While working as an elevator operator in a department store in Los Angeles, Ornette gathered together a group of musicians—teen-aged trumpet player Don Cherry, double bass player Charlie Haden, and drummers Ed Blackwell and Billy Higgins—with whom he could explore his unusual jazz compositions. [http://www.montereyjazzfestival.org/artists/ornettecoleman/index.htm Ornette Coleman 3 Bass Quintet] . Accessed September 28 2007.] [ [http://www.ornettecoleman.com/then.html Then] Official Ornette Coleman website. Accessed September 28 2007.] Coleman was introduced to music producer Lester Koenig of Contemporary Records by a bebop bassist friend of Cherry's, Red Mitchell, who thought Koenig might be interested in purchasing Coleman's songs. When other musicians found the tunes too challenging, Coleman was invited to perform the compositions himself.

Critical opinion

Though often controversial at the time, [ [http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/music/bio/ Prize in Music – Biography Ornette Coleman] Pulitzer. Accessed September 28 2007] Coleman's music on his first album is now generally well received. "Rolling Stone Magazine" commented admiringly on the composer's "genuinely original voice" and "freakishly structured tunes". [Brackett, Nathan, ed. "The New Rolling Stone Album Guide", 4th edition. Simon & Schuster. 2004. Page 178.] "All About Jazz" reviewer John Barrett Jr. cautions that, though dissonant, this album is not the first of the free jazz movement with which Coleman is so associated. [Barrett, Jr. John. (December 1 1998). [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=3176 "Something Else!!!!—The Music of Ornette Coleman"] All About Jazz. Accessed September 28 2007.] Nevertheless, in 2007 "All About Jazz" credited the album with introducing "a new era in jazz", transforming the genre by demonstrating a style of music "freed from the prevailing conventions of harmony, rhythm and melody". [ [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=15028 Ornette Coleman, 2007 Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient, Opens the 2007/08 UCLA Live Jazz Series Sept. 26] September 5 2007. Accessed September 28 2007.]

Pianist Ethan Iverson has written at length about this album and other recordings from Coleman's early period [ [http://thebadplus.typepad.com/dothemath/2006/10/early_ornette_c.html Ethan Iverson, "Early Ornette Coleman"] ] ; his argument is that on his early albums Coleman's attempts to break free of chords and chorus-structures are hampered by sidemen who are unwilling to follow his cue.

Release history

Originally released under the Contemporary imprint, the album was re-released in 1992 on LP, compact disc and compact cassette in collaboration between Contemporary and OJC.

Track listing

"All tracks composed by Ornette Coleman."
#"Invisible" – 4:11
#"The Blessing" – 4:45
#"Jayne" – 7:17
#"Chippie" – 5:37
#"The Disguise" – 2:46
#"Angel Voice" – 4:19
#"Alpha" – 4:09
#"When Will the Blues Leave?" – 4:58
#"The Sphinx" – 4:13

Personnel

*Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
*Don Cherry – trumpet
*Walter Norris – piano
*Don Payne – double bass
*Billy Higgins – drums

*Lester Koenig – producer
*Roy DuNann – engineer
*Nat Hentoff – liner notes

References


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