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Frequently Asked Questions

• What is avant-garde jazz?

  Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz and experimental jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. It originated in the 1950s and developed through the 1960s. Originally synonymous with free jazz, much avant-garde jazz was distinct from that style.

• What is freefree jazz and why should you care?

  Free Jazz is indeed freer, and at times wilder, and even over the top with its expression of the freedom from jazz’s traditional forms. Many traditionalists will either roll their eyes at it, or offer terse opinions deriding the genre.

• What are some of the best examples of free jazz?

  John Coltrane’s later period is a fine example of free jazz. The pictured Pharoah Sanders Karma album is fantastic example of world music and free jazz coming together to offer a very accessible version of free jazz. You get a mix of time signatures, diverse instrumentation, and varied tempos.

• Who started the free jazz movement?

  Coleman’s 1961 album Free Jazz gave the movement its name. A multi-instrumentalist, Dolphy is best known as an alto saxophonist, and for being one of the first musicians to play the bass clarinet in a jazz setting.

• Is free jazz avant-garde?

  Perhaps out of all the styles and sub-genres within this music, Free jazz – or Avant-garde as some of it is labeled – is hardest to pin down. It’s hard to classify exactly what constitutes this music, as it means different things to different artists.

• Who was on the shape of jazz to come?

  The Shape of Jazz To Come features his classic early quartet with Billy Higgins (who would later be replaced by Ed Blackwell) on drums, Charlie Haden on double bass and Don Cherry, arguably Ornette’s most important collaborator, on cornet. Coleman’s 1961 album Free Jazz gave the movement its name.

• What is ‘free jazz’?

  An opposition to traditional jazz harmony and chord changes, regular tempos and compositional forms… Early American free jazz recordings tend to swing and refer heavily to the blues, whilst the European tradition often uses the term ‘improvised music’, and may see itself as entirely separate from the jazz lineage.

• Who started the free jazz movement?

  Coleman’s 1961 album Free Jazz gave the movement its name. A multi-instrumentalist, Dolphy is best known as an alto saxophonist, and for being one of the first musicians to play the bass clarinet in a jazz setting.