Ten Jazz Albums to Hear Before You Die | Village Voice10. Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come The title of this album, when it came out in 1959, was the equivalent of Babe Ruth pointing to the fences or Muhammad Ali proclaiming he was the greatest. It was an album that said, you hear this sound, you hear what I’m laying down, everything is about to change. Ornette Coleman went from playing the sax to the trumpet, and he received scorn from Mil
