Ornette Coleman : Something Else!!!!

180-gram black vinyl pressed at QRP, in tip-on jacket

All-Analog mastering from the original tapes by Bernie Grundman

Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series presents this 180-gram LP edition of Ornette Colemans debut Something Else!!!!. Originally released in 1958 and recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann, the album introduced the world to Colemans innovative style and features his band of Don Cherry, Walter Norris, Don Payne and Billy Higgins. This new edition features ALL-ANALOG mastering from the original analog tapes by Bernie Grundman and is pressed at QRP and presented in a tip-on jacket.

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 an