Jazz 7" Singles (Pt. 15 — Ornette Coleman)

Another day, another reasonably priced gem. The fetishes of a 7" picture sleeved jazz record collector, posted for your edification or otherwise tossed into the ether we call “the internet”. And who would have guessed there would be an Ornette Coleman single, let alone one potentially available on your local dive’s jukebox in 1958? Taken from Ornette’s very first album, two albums out before he solidified his classic piano-less quartet and shook up the jazz scene with his take on “free jazz”. That album “The Shape of Jazz to Come” being one of the four groundbreaking jazz albums of 1959 that also include the aforementioned Dave Brubeck. Here we have a selection taken from “Something Else!!!!” (dig those exclamation points) with a band that includes a piano, and missing the integral components of bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ed Blackwell, giving it more of a post-bop feel than the future’s radical arrangements (more info on the back of the sleeve): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nGDRpdgAGs