free jazz

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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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.

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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.

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Goblen’s manner of writing is closer to free jazz or freestyle hip-hop than traditional drama.

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With Coleman’s band in the ’50s and ’60s, and on his own formidable catalog as a bandleader, he helped pioneer free jazz, a style that subverted the studied cool of bebop with blasts of atonality and mercurial song structures.

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A new docuseries on Hulu, “Black Twitter: A People’s History,” traces the path that the free jazz ensemble that is Black Twitter took in becoming an arbiter of cultural shifts time and again, a harbor of soft but insistent vigilantism.

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