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

We’re talking free jazz, an experiment in improvisational music that captivated the world’s greatest jazz musicians in the second half of the 20th century: Albert Ayler, Derek Bailey, Ornette Coleman — and so forth.

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For the last six years, Moore has been pouring this passion into a new book: “Now Jazz Now: 100 Essential Free Jazz and Improvisation Recordings 1960-80,” co-written by Byron Coley and Mats Gustafsson and published by Ecstatic Peace Library, the publishing imprint he runs with Eva Moore.

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“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.

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It’s a great piece of noise music, but it’s free jazz, and it’s not even following the structures of what you know to be proper jazz behavior.

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“I go out with my band and I play typical band gigs, but I prefer being in a basement with a free jazz drummer any day of the week.”

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