free jazz
noun
: free-form jazz marked especially by an abandonment of preset chord progression and a lack of melodic pattern
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Kramer credited Sinclair with helping to expand the band’s musical horizons further in the direction of R&B, free jazz and blues.
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Gary Graff, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2024
Drawing from free jazz, freak folk, Hasidic mystical songs, and Delta blues, Talàn takes the sparse, solo guitar meditations of 2015’s exquisite Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes African Mystic Music and stretches out toward eerie new crossroads.
—Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
Birmingham’s largest free jazz festival returns to the historic 4th Avenue Business District in downtown Birmingham this weekend.
—Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 22 Aug. 2023
In the 1990s, Williams joined the longstanding free jazz group NRG Ensemble before taking over as a bandleader when founder Hal Russell died.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Nov. 2023
Throw in the free jazz improvisations of Ornette Coleman, whom Reed also revered at that time, and such eclecticism could just as well be the template for the Velvet Underground.
—Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
Carla Bley, the pianist, composer, bandleader, and pioneer of the free jazz movement, has died from complications of brain cancer, The New York Times reports, citing the musician’s partner of more than 30 years, bassist Steve Swallow.
—Allison Hussey, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
Carla Bley, leader of the free jazz movement, pianist and composer, has died following complications from brain cancer, according to The New York Times.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2023
The countdown is on to Birmingham’s biggest free jazz festival.
—Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2023
Gary Graff, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2024
Drawing from free jazz, freak folk, Hasidic mystical songs, and Delta blues, Talàn takes the sparse, solo guitar meditations of 2015’s exquisite Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes African Mystic Music and stretches out toward eerie new crossroads.
—Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
Birmingham’s largest free jazz festival returns to the historic 4th Avenue Business District in downtown Birmingham this weekend.
—Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 22 Aug. 2023
In the 1990s, Williams joined the longstanding free jazz group NRG Ensemble before taking over as a bandleader when founder Hal Russell died.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Nov. 2023
Throw in the free jazz improvisations of Ornette Coleman, whom Reed also revered at that time, and such eclecticism could just as well be the template for the Velvet Underground.
—Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
Carla Bley, the pianist, composer, bandleader, and pioneer of the free jazz movement, has died from complications of brain cancer, The New York Times reports, citing the musician’s partner of more than 30 years, bassist Steve Swallow.
—Allison Hussey, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
Carla Bley, leader of the free jazz movement, pianist and composer, has died following complications from brain cancer, according to The New York Times.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2023
The countdown is on to Birmingham’s biggest free jazz festival.
—Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2023
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