Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman

There must be better experimental jazz out there. I didnt hate it but come on. Loow 3

This sounds like all the instruments have been thrown into the dishwasher and then the dishwasher has been turned on and thrown down the stairs. Oh and the dishwasher is on fire.

1 star: an absolute casserole of a record

This is pretty incredible avant-garde jazz with vague elements of grindcore. If you want something similar that leans hard into death metal, check out the incomparable Imperial Triumphant (I recommend the album Goldstar as it is more accessible).

4.5/5.0: Excellent

interesting take on jazz. its a bit much at the start but songs on the later half are a lot more coherent. it kind of turns your brain off in a way, i listened twice and almost fell asleep the second time. after listening to some of the coleman originals he did a good job of of capturing their essence in whatever avant-garde jazz fusion genre you could call this.

Hyvää settiä jazzin HC-päästä! Oon kuullut paljon vaikeammin läpäistävää free jazzia, tässähän oli jopa ihan seurattavat melodiat. 4/5

Klangliche Körperverletzung.
John Zorn macht aus Ornette Coleman ein hysterisches Saxophon-Massaker.
Keine Seele, kein Groove – nur Lärm, Chaos, und Aggro-Jazz für Masochisten.

An interesting concept on paper: Ornette Coleman’s classic compositions reimagined through a hardcore punk filter. But in execution, it’s 40 minutes of hyper-compressed chaos that borders on unlistenable without prior knowledge of the originals.

Most tracks range between one and three minutes, with a few even longer — but they’re still delivered at breakneck speed, leaving little room for nuance or development. Without the emotional depth and melodic freedom of Coleman’s originals, these renditions feel more like abrasive stunts than meaningful interpretations.

If you want to understand Coleman’s genius, skip this and go straight to 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘢𝘻𝘻 𝘵𝘰 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 or 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘐𝘴 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤.

𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝟰𝟬-𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲.

"RANDOM BULLSHIT GO" the album. It's a cacophony of sounds that give off the impression that the album wants you to fuck off and never come back. The sad part is? Sometimes it clicks together and is actually damn decent.

My god, thrash jazz is something I didn't expect to hear on this list.
Such exciting chaos, it's like a jazz fever dream. A constant barrage of noise that was pretty ahead of it's time.
5/5

Fucking hell.

Chaos incarnate. Jazz on jazz on jazz and some of it sounded okay

Oh man. What the hell was that?!?! I kind of like the aesthetic even though it was borderline unlistenable. Pure chaos. 1.5/5

The first five minutes of this ensures that it can never be anything but a one-star review. Fuck that. I don't care that people will generously call it avant-garde - it's either pretentious wank, or just noise. The result is the same.

Sad thing is that interesting things actually start to (slowly and unevenly) happen from 5 minutes and forward, but it’s not nearly enough, and nothing about this is essential listening.

No shit this garbage is not on Spotify.

An assault on the senses in the worst way possible, and I say this as a jazz guy

Vrije jazz volgens wiki. Nou wiki, er is een verschil tussen vrije jazz en een kakofonie...

Couldn't get this on my streaming service, but I know Coleman's stuff. Too bad, I like the source material.

Wow...that was a lot. Objectively too much. From the first notes I thought I was going to give this a one star review, but then it started to grow on me a bit. I can't say I will ever listen to it again. Although I suppose it could be good background music for doing some house cleaning while hopped up on speed. In the end it was unique and interesting and crazy enough that I was thoroughly glad I listened to it.

338/1001
🌗🌑🌑🌑🌑

First 20 minutes, nothing short of painful.
After that there were some tracks where I could detect some rhythm, and tap my toes.
I maybe gained some kind of education from this? Idk, definitely isn’t anything I would include in a “must listen” book. But it’s different from the dozens of Brit pop albums, so there’s that. 1.5 stars

fun