anyone on here listen to him? if you don't know who he is, he was the man who shaped the free jazz movement starting in 1959 with his album "The Shape of Jazz To Come". He was truly an improvisational genius, and even inspired Coltrane to take up the Avante-Garde style of jazz. He was outrageously ahead of his time. "The Shape of Jazz To Come" came out around the same time as "Kind Of Blue" by Miles, which gets a lot of credit for being the most far out thing on the scene at the time, but this is much more abstract and improvisational. so i was just wondering who has heard of Ornette and if you have what do you think of him?
Well, as someone who listens to a lot of jazz for pleasure but doesn't understand the first thing about it, at least from a technical standpoint, I'll say that The Shape Of Jazz To Come is a perfect album. I still don't know if I like it more than Kind Of Blue, in fact I'm sure I don't, but then KOB is surrounded with nostalgia (my first jazz album) for me, but I'll definitly agree that SOJTC is more abstract and convoluted (in a good way).
Any album Don Cherry plays trumpet on is gold, although i like his stuff without Ornette Coleman alot better. But it's still a great one.
yeah Don Cherry is a hell of trumpet player. And i do like Kind of Blue more than TSOJTC, but i was just saying that the latter was way more out there for the time.
Ornette shows us that genius is not bound to orthodoxy. The Shape of Jazz to come, Ornette!, Change of the Century
