Ornette Coleman - Something Else
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Alto Saxophone - Ornette Coleman [click here to see more vinyl featuring Ornette Coleman]
Bass – Don Payne
Drums – Billy Higgins
Piano – Walter Norris
Trumpet – Don Cherry
Written by Ornette Coleman
1LP, Stoughton Printing old-style tip-on jackets
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Quality Record Pressings
Label : Craft Recordings Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series
Original Label : Contemporary
Recorded February 10, 22 & March 24, 1958 at Contemporary's Studio
Engineered by Roy DuNann
Produced by Lester Koenig
Mastered and lacquer cut by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering
Design by Guidi, Tri-Arts
Liner Notes by Nat Hentoff
Photography by Walter Zurlinden
Originally released in September 1958
Reissued in July 2023
Tracks:
Side A:
- Invisible
- The Blessing
- Jayne
- Chippie
Side B:
- The Disguise
- Angel Voice
- Alpha
- When Will the Blues Leave?
- The Sphinx
Reviews :
“This 1958 debut recording by the Ornette Coleman Quintet, which featured Coleman on his trademark white plastic alto, Don Cherry on trumpet, Billy Higgins on drums, Walter Norris on piano, and Don Payne on bass, shook up the jazz world -- particularly those musicians and critics who had entered the hard bop era with such verve and were busy using the blues as a way of creating vast solo spaces inside tight and short melody lines. Something Else!!!! is anathema to that entire idea, and must have sounded like it came from outer space at the time. First, Coleman's interest was in pitch, not "being in tune." His use of pitch could take him all over -- and outside of -- a composition, as it does on "Invisible," which begins in D flat. The intervals are standard, but the melodic component of the tune -- despite its hard bop tempo -- is, for the most part, free. But what is most compelling is evident in abundance here and on the next two tunes, "The Blessing" and "Jayne": a revitalization of the blues as it expressed itself in jazz. Coleman refurbished the blues framework, threaded it through his jazz without getting rid of its folk-like, simplistic milieu. In other words, the groove Coleman was getting here was a people's groove that only confounded intellectuals at the time. Coleman restored blues to their "classic" beginnings in African music and unhooked their harmonies. Whether the key was D flat, A, G, whatever, Coleman revisited the 17- and 25-bar blues. There are normal signatures, however, such as "Chippie" in F and in eight-bar form, and "The Disguise" is in D, but in a strange 13-bar form where the first and the last change places, altering the talking-like voice inherent in the melodic line. But the most important thing about Something Else! was that, in its angular, almost totally oppositional way, it swung and still does; like a finger-poppin' daddy on a Saturday night, this record swings from the rafters of the human heart with the most unusually gifted, emotional, and lyrical line since Bill Evans first hit the scene.” AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4.5 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.83 / 5