Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman – Song X

Two players who changed jazz forever

‘Song X’ is a meeting of two players in Metheny and Coleman who impacted the direction of jazz. Coleman, with the release of ‘The Shape of Jazz to Come’ in 1959 would be recognized as the leader of the avante-garde free jazz movement. Metheny would begin asserting his influence with his debut album ‘Bright Size Life’. His tone and style were immediately unlike anyone else and remain so to this day. ‘Song X’ is a fairly intense affair, with several of the cuts finding all players more or less soloing at the same time, but with such skill that room is left for them each to be heard and have their moment.