John Coltrane & Don Cherry - The Avant-Garde
Once again, had no idea this even existed - basically Coltrane playing with Ornette Coleman's band! What a concept! The interesting thing to my ears is that, whereas Miles and Lee Morgan tend to kind of lay down a melodic bed for Trane's bursts of dissonance, here Cherry is the frenetic one, making Coltrane almost sound like the voice of reason. He definitely gets weird (I especially like 'Focus on Sanity'), but it's kind of mellow, in a strange way, especially when compared to Ornette himself. Very interesting juxtaposition of styles. It's stuff like this that makes Jazz such fertile listening ground.