Free jazz

Free jazz is a movement of jazz music first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and ’50s. Each in his or her own way, free jazz musicians attempted to alter, extend, or break down the conventions of jazz, often by discarding hitherto invariable features of jazz, such as fixed chord changes or tempos. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Evan Parker

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Tuesday 12 June 2012
CancelledThe Thing Joe McPhee Tuesday 12 June 2012	Johnny Brenda's Philadelphia PA, United States 39.96905 -75.134321	1 going 1 shout

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haloedeyes

aylerrrrrrrrrrrrr

11 days ago
SpoonyTheSpoon

Patrick Star told me to acquire a taste for this. [3] We're sad, sad people.

13 days ago
Thrashur

Quem foi o mongolóide que escreveu essa definição em português do Free Jazz? Free Jazz não foi criado por John Coltrane, foi criado por ORNETTE COLEMAN.

March 2012
ndeselms

Patrick Star told me to acquire a taste for this. [2]

March 2012
themalefactor

>not listening to this genre >2012

February 2012
secondplanet_

Eric Dolphy's owrk is just amazing.

January 2012
Goldi_lox

http://dirtypharmeceuticals.bandcamp.com/

January 2012
toztizokzndz

Depending on what kind of free jazz you like: Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures, Albert Ayler: Spiritual Unity, Sun Ra: Magic city, Art Ensemble of Chicago: live in Paris. There is also a lot of good avant garde jazz stuff out there.

November 2011