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Free jazz is a movement of 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. While usually considered experimental and avant-garde, it has also oppositely been conceiv… read more
Free jazz is a movement of 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 i… read more
Free jazz is a movement of 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… read more

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1 Play track Lonely Woman Ornette Coleman
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2 Play track The Creator Has A Master Plan Pharoah Sanders
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3 Play track Astral Traveling Pharoah Sanders
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4 Play track Eventually Ornette Coleman
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5 Play track Enlightenment Sun Ra
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6 Play track Shiva-Loka Alice Coltrane
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7 Play track Something About John Coltrane Alice Coltrane
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8 Play track The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable Man Colin Stetson
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9 Play track Peace Ornette Coleman
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10 Play track Shakey Jake Joe McPhee
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    Thembi

    Pharoah Sanders 93,035 listeners

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    Ornette Coleman 157,624 listeners

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    Sonny Sharrock 39,733 listeners

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    Alice Coltrane 39,237 listeners

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