#417 Ornette Coleman, 'The Shape of Jazz to Come' (1959)

This album requires your complete attention. I repeat, do not listen to this in the background. Recorded in just one day in May 1959, with this album, Ornette Coleman takes Jazz and flips it on his head. The songs on this album feature no chord structure, in fact they feature hardly any structure at all. Other than brief thematic pieces in each song, the songs are essentially 38 minutes of free improvisation.