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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. List of jazz genres - Wikipedia

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    Ethno jazz, a form of ethno music, is sometimes equaled to world music or is regarded as its successor, particularly before the 1990s. An independent meaning of "ethno jazz" emerged around 1990. 1990s -> European free jazz: European free jazz is a part of the global free jazz scene with its own development and characteristics. 1960s -> Flamenco ...

  4. Jazz - Wikipedia

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    Peter Brötzmann is a key figure in European free jazz. Free jazz was played in Europe in part because musicians such as Ayler, Taylor, Steve Lacy, and Eric Dolphy spent extended periods of time there, and European musicians such as Michael Mantler and John Tchicai traveled to the U.S. to

  5. Avant-garde jazz - Wikipedia

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    Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz, experimental jazz, or "new thing") [1] [2] is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. [3] It originated in the early 1950s and developed through to the late 1960s. [4] Originally synonymous with free jazz, much avant-garde jazz was distinct ...

  6. Ornette Coleman - Wikipedia

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    Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) [1] 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 from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.

  7. The free jazz ensemble known as Black Twitter, and how it ...

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    "Black Twitter: A People's History" traces the path that Black Twitter took in becoming an arbiter of cultural shifts time and again.

  8. Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation - Wikipedia

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    The music is a continuous free improvisation with only a few brief pre-determined sections, recorded in one take with no overdubbing or editing. [7] The album features what Coleman called a “double quartet,” i.e., two self-contained jazz quartets: each with a reed instrument, trumpet, bass, and drums. [8]

  9. Bill Murray Left Grammy Winner Laufey Feeling 'Confused ... - AOL

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    It's not hard to recognize Laufey's talent. In a new interview with The Independent, the Grammy-winning jazz-pop singer, 25, recalled none other than Bill Murray giving her a compliment as a ...