free jazz

American  

noun

1. spontaneously experimental, free-form jazz, popularized as an avant-garde phenomenon in the 1960s by various soloists and characterized by random expression and disregard for traditional structures, tonalities, and rhythms.

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Example Sentences

In fact, Irreversible Entanglements, a free jazz collective that Ayewa is a member of, released its fifth studio album last week.

From Los Angeles Times

While their music is at times reminiscent of the free jazz of Sun Ra and Ornette Coleman, it also brings in elements of electronic music, punk rock and hip-hop.

From Los Angeles Times

Sun Ra, birth name Herman Poole Blount, was born in Birmingham, Ala., in 1914 and grew up to become a sui generis jazz man, experimental musician, pioneer of electronic music and leader in ’60s free jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal

The band performed alongside a loose crew of like-minded acts like Black Country, New Road, Shame and Squid who were experimenting with noise, free jazz and textured art-rock, centered around the Brixton venue the Windmill.

From Los Angeles Times

“Now Jazz Now” is more than a collection of greatest hits, it’s the chronicling of a decades-long obsession with free jazz between “three record geeks who are really into collecting,” Moore said via Zoom from his home in London last month.

From Los Angeles Times