Something Else!!!!

Something Else!!!!
Studio album by
Ornette Coleman
ReleasedSeptember 1958 (1958-09)
RecordedFebruary 10, 22 & March 24, 1958
GenreFree jazz
Length42:15
LabelContemporary
ProducerLester Koenig
Ornette Coleman chronology
Something Else!!!!
(1958)
Tomorrow Is the Question!
(1959)

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. 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". 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.