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Rabble Without A Cause
Wednesday May 22nd, 2024 with Ian M.
The Shape of Jazz to Come - the 65th anniversary

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On this day in 1959, Ornette Coleman started a jazz revolution. He, along with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins, recorded what would become the seminal album, "The Shape of Jazz to Come". Coleman’s intention was to call the album “Focus on Sanity”, after another track on the album. Nesuhi Ertegun of Atlantic Records convinced him that the eventual title would give listeners “an idea about the uniqueness of what they were going to hear”.
Lonely Woman
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come - Atlantic Records, 1959
Eventually
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come - Atlantic Records, 1959
Peace
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come - Atlantic Records, 1959
Focus on Sanity
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come - Atlantic Records, 1959
Congeniality
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come - Atlantic Records, 1959
Chronoloy
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come - Atlantic Records, 1959
Monk and the Nun
Ornette Coleman - Twins - Atlantic Records, 1971
Just For You
Ornette Coleman - The Art of the Improvisers - Atlantic Records, 1970
Free
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century - Atlantic Records, 1960
Change of the Century
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century - Atlantic Records, 1960
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Heavy Ben
Top shelf music. Thanks for playing Ornette and co.!

12:15 AM, May 23rd, 2024
Ian Mackenzie (host)
It was a pleasure. Sorry I missed your show!

6:21 AM, May 23rd, 2024
Barry Madore
I've always struggled to understand the rabble and the rouse instigated by this album (and the Coleman ensemble's precedent and subsequent live performances). What I've come to accept is that this is because it had already altered the DNA of the musical landscape this late-60's born listener who had previously been steeped in post-punk, hardcore, goth, power-pop, :"fusion", whatever – by the time TSOJTC reached my ears to then blow apart my conception of music altogether. But it still did not seem inaccessible, even to one whose conception of jazz at that time was Take 5 and maybe Benny Goodman. Wild, yes but masterfully so. I guess this is why I gravitated to it in the same way I sidled up to the Minutemen who were dismantling hardcore and, well, pop. And Mingus who was my gateway to Coleman/Cherry/Haden/Higgins. Thanks for putting it all into perspective.

9:10 AM, May 23rd, 2024