Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come

 

Genre: Free Jazz

Dates: 1959

The birth of free jazz, midwifed by a Texas with a white plastic saxophone and an aversion to traditional notions of harmony, ensemble playing, and pitch. If you have heard a song more strangely beautiful and haunting than "Lonely Woman," I don't want to hear it—it might do damage.

Track Listing:

1. Lonely Woman
2. Eventually
3.
Peace
4. Focus On Sanity
5. Congeniality
6.
Chronology