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.

Example Sentences

You suddenly turned it into leaping into free jazz, then back again.

From The Daily Beast

When free jazz seemed like a spent force, he brought something new—and greatly beautiful—to it.

From The Daily Beast