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  2. Jazz poetry - Wikipedia

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    Jazz poetry has been defined as poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation" [1] and also as poetry that takes jazz music, musicians, or the jazz milieu as its subject, [2] and is designed to be performed. Some critics consider it a distinct genre though others consider the term to be merely descriptive.

  3. Jazz improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Jazz improvisation by Col Loughnan (tenor saxophone) at the Manly Jazz Festival with the Sydney Jazz Legends. Loughnan was accompanied by Steve Brien (guitar), Craig Scott (double bass, face obscured), and Ron Lemke (drums). Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz ...

  4. List of jazz genres - Wikipedia

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    Flamenco jazz is a style mixing flamenco and jazz, typified by artists such as Paco de Lucia and Camarón de la Isla. 1960s -> Free funk: A combination of avant-garde jazz with funk music 1970s -> Free jazz: Free improvisation is improvised music without any specific rules. By itself, free improvisation can be any genre, it isn't necessarily jazz.

  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 ]

  6. Scat singing - Wikipedia

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    Free jazz and the influence of world musicians on the medium pushed jazz singing nearer to avant-garde art music. [27] In the 1960s Ward Swingle was the product of an unusually liberal musical education. He took the scat singing idea and applied it to the works of Bach, creating The Swingle Singers.

  7. Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development - Wikipedia

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    He cites various jazz performers for the natural quality of their sound production, sound that makes each performer readily identifiable. A final brief section in this chapter, on improvisation, states that group improvisation, a hallmark of early jazz, is a distinctively African practice. Schuller counters a variety of other theories of the ...

  8. List of art movements - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of art movements in alphabetical order. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies , evolved over time to group artists who are often loosely related. Some of these movements were defined by the members themselves, while other terms emerged decades or centuries after the periods in question.

  9. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. [1]