free jazz
noun
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.
- Also called new thing.
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How to use free jazz in a sentence
You suddenly turned it into leaping into free jazz, then back again.
When free jazz seemed like a spent force, he brought something new—and greatly beautiful—to it.
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