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

Both Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman brought up Schoenberg when I interviewed them, and it was their world of progressive jazz that led Hugh Levick to Hear Now.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025

An accomplished player in the world of Carnatic music, a style of South Indian classical, Rajagopalan was invited to join the revived ‘70s band featuring progressive jazz guitar great John McLaughlin. “

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

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

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 Robert Bloch