progressive jazz

American  

noun

1. an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements.

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Etymology

Origin of progressive jazz

First recorded in 1945–50

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progressive jazz

After funking up Marymoor Park with an ace band in 2019, the 81-year-old progressive jazz great’s taking it inside to the Paramount Theatre’s more acoustically advanced surroundings.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021

The progressive jazz bandleader Boyd Raeburn, tired of his old charts, asked the young arranger to write new ones, and he did the same for Henry Jerome’s band.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2020

Mr. Marsalis performed and recorded throughout the 1960s and ’70s with a variety of modern and progressive jazz musicians, including the drummer Ed Blackwell and the eminent horn-playing brothers Cannonball and Nat Adderley.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2020

All that, and I haven’t gotten to that progressive jazz I mentioned.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2019

The quaint atonalities of progressive jazz and the childishly frantic rhythms of "cool sounds" were somehow soothing and reassuring in their reminder of a simple heritage from a simpler age.

From This Crowded Earth by Bloch, Robert