progressive jazz


noun
  1. an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements.: Compare bop1, cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.

Origin of progressive jazz

1
First recorded in 1945–50

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