How to Use free jazz in a Sentence

free jazz

noun

• Åhlund also plays free jazz and runs a small record label.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• The event remains the world's largest free jazz festival.
  — Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 25 Mar. 2026
• For him, free jazz and metal and rap and hardcore punk were coming from the same funky place.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021
• Coltrane had lately been turning his attention toward what is called, for short, free jazz.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2021
• Like a free jazz solo, the audience had no real idea where things were going but trusted that the journey would be worth it.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• The album is a noisy, sprawling, genre-hopping song cycle steeped in everything from disco to free jazz.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Above us are the elites with their champagne and free jazz; below us, the suppurating underclass.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2018
• Her quirky scatting in the chorus becomes the repetitive hook, which gives the song a free jazz flair boxed into the structure of pop.
  — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2017
• There’s also a free jazz-history talk about Coltrane at an Old City coffee shop.
  — Staff Reports, Philly.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• In Anne Marchand’s mixed-media abstractions, the music of the spheres is a sort of free jazz.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• Tenor saxophonist Coltrane moved from a master of bebop to an artist pushing the boundaries of the form with free jazz.
  — USA Today, 22 Feb. 2021
• Yells At Eels has been at it for over 20 years, and the band is not your typical free jazz family band.
  — Jeremy Hallock, Dallas News, 7 May 2020
• The countdown is on to Birmingham’s biggest free jazz festival.
  — Shauna Stuart | [email protected], al, 26 Aug. 2023
• Their subterranean seaside stone bunker is awesome, as is the film’s score, which vacillates between free jazz, drone, and psych guitar.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 21 June 2024
• The series is the longest running free jazz concert series in America.
  — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2022
• Then everyone settled in to watch a film about confinement and despair set to a frequently menacing score of free jazz.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• Taylor was known as one of the pioneers of the free jazz movement, and was seen as a groundbreaking and uncompromising artist.
  — kansascity, 7 Apr. 2018
• The squeals, bleats and loosening aesthetics of free jazz and rock also contributed to the burgeoning form of music gone wild.
  — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2021
• The first festival was a big hit, and the event has steadily grown into the second-largest free jazz festival in Minnesota.
  — Dan Emerson, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2019
• The pair would go on to work on other political campaigns and organize free jazz concerts on the South Side through the years.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2022
• Fronted by Anastasio, the lead guitarist for the jam band Phish, the band experiments with improv rock and free jazz.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Mar. 2022
• Around this time, Sanders started developing his own playing style, a sound rooted in the emerging free jazz scene but connected to bebop.
  — Marcus J. Moore, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2022
• McGregor’s brother, Ryan, who is the new room’s sound man and production manager, has a passion for free jazz and world music.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
• Guests can be found dancing to the weekly free jazz nights hosted in the lobby, which is across from the ballroom that hosted the first-ever Oscars ceremony.
  — Jess Joho, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
• The guitarist and songwriter Wendy Eisenberg was third on the bill, performing in between a loud violinist and a free jazz trio.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
• In July, visitors can catch the Midtown Art Walk and free jazz, bluegrass and reggae concerts.
  — Erin E. Williams, Twin Cities, 22 June 2019
• The daughter of a free jazz saxophone player and a booking agent for afro-descendant music acts, Murray grew up in the music industry.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2022
• At ease everywhere from flitting free jazz to looser, funkier textures, Allen abides, insistent but never overbearing on a session well worth the wait.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
• From his early days as a teen phenom to his more measured solo work and experimentation with free jazz, Rollins was revered for his improvisational skill.
  — CBS News, 26 May 2026
• From his early days as a teen phenom to his more measured solo work and experimentation with free jazz, Rollins was revered for his improvisational skill.
  — ABC News, 25 May 2026