Something Else!!!! | ||||
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Studio album by Ornette Coleman | ||||
Released | September 1958[1] | |||
Recorded | February 10, 22 & March 24, 1958 | |||
Genre | Free jazz[2] | |||
Length | 42:15 | |||
Label | Contemporary | |||
Producer | Lester Koenig | |||
Ornette Coleman chronology | ||||
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Something Else!!!! (subtitled The Music of Ornette Coleman) is the debut album by jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman. It was released by Contemporary Records in September 1958.[1] According to AllMusic, the album "shook up the jazz world", revitalizing the union of blues and jazz and restoring "blues to their 'classic' beginnings in African music".[3] It is unusual in Coleman's output in that it features a conventional bebop quintet instrumentation (saxophone, cornet, piano, bass and drums); after this album, Coleman would omit the piano, creating a starker and more fluid sound.