free jazz
Americannoun
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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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
But its reliance on stark emotion wasn’t far from the free jazz being made at the time by Archie Shepp or Albert Ayler—or from Lennon’s own primal scream, “Mother,” which certainly shows Ms. Ono’s influence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
Where “I Think You Should Leave” operates like a jukebox, “The Chair Company” is a concept album extrapolating a single sight gag into a swirl of lunacy on par with an extended free jazz performance.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025
The writing in Burns’s third novel, though, feels more like free jazz — a teenage girl’s almost psychedelic stream-of-consciousness account of growing up in the acrid thick of the Troubles in the late 1970s.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Guitarist-songwriter Chris Forsyth spent his 20s immersed in New York’s experimental scene, delving into improvised music, avant rock and free jazz on the Lower East Side and studying guitar with Television co-founder Richard Lloyd.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2023
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