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  2. Free jazz - Wikipedia

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    Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, [1] is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes.

  3. Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz - Wikipedia

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    Since 1989, the institute has gone into public schools to provide music instruction and instrument training sessions for public school students in Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C., as well as thousands of students in urban, rural, and remote areas of the country. In recent years, the institute has reported a 100% high school ...

  4. Timeline of jazz education - Wikipedia

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    NEC is the first major traditional music conservatory to offer a degree in jazz. MSM: The Manhattan School of Music added a jazz department in 1982, followed by a jazz oriented master's in 1984, and a bachelor's in 1987. The school's influence in formalizing jazz education rapidly rose to prominence.

  5. Jazz Has Actually Been Banned In New Orleans Schools Since 1922

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    The rule-- which officials say has racist origins -- has been ignored for decades and the music genre is taught in some area schools. Jazz Has Actually Been Banned In New Orleans Schools Since ...

  6. Mobile Jazz Lab pilot program blends music, STEM ... - AOL

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    A Tribe for Jazz's Mobile Jazz Lab program teaches students critical and creative-thinking skills by combining music with STEM education.

  7. Jazz education - Wikipedia

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    In New York a new style of jazz became immensely popular. This style, known as Big Band, ushered in a new era of jazz education. [12] Big band music is particularly important for jazz education because it introduces a number of new forums for the furthering of jazz music. The first such forum is the arranger.

  8. Jazz - Wikipedia

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    It is debatable whether Marsalis's critical and commercial success was a cause or a symptom of the reaction against Fusion and Free Jazz and the resurgence of interest in the kind of jazz pioneered in the 1960s (particularly modal jazz and post-bop); nonetheless there were many other manifestations of a resurgence of traditionalism, even if ...

  9. List of jazz genres - Wikipedia

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    Free jazz musicians make use of free improvisation to alter, extend, or break down jazz convention, often by discarding fixed chord changes, tempos, melodies, or phrases. Ornette Coleman was an early and noted advocate of this style. 1950s -> Gypsy jazz: A style of jazz music often said to have been started by guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt ...