The Empty Foxhole

The Empty Foxhole
Studio album by
Released1966
RecordedSeptember 9, 1966
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreFree jazz
Length38:56
LabelBlue Note
ProducerFrancis Wolff
Ornette Coleman chronology
At the Golden Circle Stockholm
(1965)
The Empty Foxhole
(1966)
The Music of Ornette Coleman
(1967)

The Empty Foxhole is an album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman that was released on the Blue Note label in 1966. The album features Coleman's untutored violin and trumpet as well as performing on his usual instrument, the alto saxophone, and marks the recording debut of his drummer son Denardo Coleman, who was ten years of age at the time. The album cover features Coleman's own artwork.