The phrase "a shape of jazz" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the characteristics, forms, or styles within the genre of jazz music.
Example: "The album captures a unique shape of jazz that blends traditional elements with modern influences."
Alternatives: "a form of jazz" or "a style of jazz".
After a period of initial praise in New York and the release of such acclaimed albums as "Free Jazz" and "The Shape of Jazz to Come," the group did indeed fall apart, largely, Mr. Coleman said, because of "economics and the image around us, pro and con". At that point, Mr. Coleman said, he was simply tired of the controversy.
Mr. Coleman, 79, has been celebrated for the last 50 years as a paragon of progressivism: in 1959 Atlantic released "The Shape of Jazz to Come," a shot across the bow of modern-jazz orthodoxy and the album that marked him as a sharply ascendant force.
Part of the reason is "Time Out," the aptly named 1959 recording that stands with Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," Charles Mingus Mingusus Ah Um and Ornette Colemann's "Shape of Jazz to Come" as a groundbreaking album during a pivotal year in the evolution of jazz.
There are more than 3m new pages for you to explore as well as 600,000-plus artists' pages – so if, for example, you prefer your jazz to come in the shape of, er, The Shape of Jazz to Come, or think a better choice is John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, then find their albums and get to work ….
Much of his music was inspired by the blues, and the first thing that strikes a listener, upon hearing the 1959 recording, "The Shape of Jazz to Come," is that, as radicalism goes, it's damn catchy.
Those assertions came initially, between 1958 and 1960, in a series of provocative album titles: "Something Else!!!!"; "The Shape of Jazz to Come"; "Change of the Century".
By the following year, now accompanied by like-minded collaborators of his own choosing, Coleman moved to New York City and began a series of classic recordings for Atlantic Records — including "The Shape of Jazz to Come," "Change of the Century," and "This is Our Music" — which lived up to their propitious titles.
Mr. Coleman has been at the top of his game for half a century, ever since the release of his defining 1959 album, "The Shape of Jazz to Come".
Key recording: The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic, 1959).
I bought The Shape of Jazz to Come.
