Free jazz or Free Form in the early- to mid-1970s is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the...
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Modal jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation, as did free jazz, which...
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European free jazz is a part of the global free jazz scene with its own development and characteristics. It is hard to establish who are the founders...
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Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz...
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Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is an album by the jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman. It was released through Atlantic Records in September...
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Chance and the Contortions' 1979 album Buy. Punk jazz is closely related to free jazz, no wave, and loft jazz, and has since significantly inspired post-hardcore...
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subgenres of jazz music. Jazz portal Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin. p. 2. ISBN 0-141-00646-3. "Acid jazz (genre)"...
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music, and free improvisation. Nu jazz typically ventures further into the electronic territory than does its close cousin, acid jazz. Nu jazz can be very...
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Air was a free jazz trio founded by saxophone player Henry Threadgill, double bassist Fred Hopkins, and drummer Steve McCall in 1971. Threadgill was asked...
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The genre is hard to characterize musically but draws from free, avant-garde and modal jazz and thematically focuses on transcendence and spirituality...
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Japanese jazz (Japanese: 日本のジャズ, Nihon no jazu), also called Japazz, is jazz played by Japanese musicians, jazz connected to Japan or Japanese culture...
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mid to late 1960s, largely as an outgrowth of free jazz and contemporary classical music. Exponents of free improvised music include saxophonists Evan Parker...
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Don Cherry (trumpeter) (redirect from Don Cherry (jazz))
Ornette Coleman, including on the pioneering free jazz albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960). Cherry...
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Ornette Coleman (category Free jazz saxophonists)
2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived...
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greatest albums of all time. AllMusic called it one of the 20 essential free jazz albums. The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015. From...
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with jazz. It originated in the early 1950s and developed through to the late 1960s. Originally synonymous with free jazz, much avant-garde jazz was distinct...
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jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz fusion and 1980s-era Latin jazz. The techniques and instrumentation of this type...
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The Free Jazz Festival was a two-week annual music festival debuting in 1985 with performances taking place in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. It ran...
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this is a departure from funky jazz and free jazz back to the street funk movement of the era. Examples of early jazz funk albums were Miles Davis' On...
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Ruby Vroom (redirect from Sugar Free Jazz)
debut albums of the '90s". "Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago" – 3:48 "Sugar Free Jazz" – 3:55 "Casiotone Nation" – 3:50 "Blueeyed Devil" – 4:12 "Bus to Beelzebub"...
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The origin of the word jazz is one of the most sought-after etymologies in modern American English. Interest in the word – named the Word of the Twentieth...
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piano and viola. Active in jazz since the early 1950s, he earned wider attention during the mid-1960s spread of free jazz. With a thorough command of...
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Free Jazz to complement his record store. After a decade of growth in subscriptions, deepening of writer pools, and internationalization, Radio Free Jazz...
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Chamber jazz Continental jazz Cool jazz Dixieland or 'Early Jazz'. Free jazz Gypsy jazz Hard Bop Latin jazz Mainstream jazz M-Base Neo-bop Orchestral jazz Post-bop...
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inspired avant-garde jazz and, later, free jazz. Jazz portal Chamber jazz List of cool jazz and West Coast jazz musicians List of jazz genres Calkins, Caroll...
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List of music genres and styles (section Jazz)
Continental jazz Cool jazz Crossover jazz Dixieland Ethno jazz European free jazz Free funk Free improvisation Free jazz Gypsy jazz Hard bop Jazz blues Jazz-funk...
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Last Exit was an American free jazz supergroup, composed of electric guitarist Sonny Sharrock, drummer/occasional vocalist Ronald Shannon Jackson, saxophonist...
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Gypsy jazz (also known as gypsy swing, jazz manouche or hot club-style jazz) is a musical idiom inspired by the Romani jazz guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt...
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characteristic motifs. In modal jazz, the performers may take turns leading and responding while sharing a changing set of notes. In a free jazz context, there may...
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