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Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz, experimental jazz, or "new thing") [1] [2] is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. [3] It originated in the early 1950s and developed through to the late 1960s. [4] Originally synonymous with free jazz, much avant-garde jazz was distinct ...
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) [1] was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. His pioneering works often abandoned the harmony -based composition ...
Derek Bailey (guitarist) albums (1 C, 9 P) Joey Baron albums (1 C, 6 P) H. Jon Benjamin albums (1 P) Steve Beresford albums (4 P) Tim Berne albums (1 C, 16 P) Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band albums (3 C, 6 P) Matthew Bourne (musician) albums (2 P) Don Byron albums (4 P)
The Shape of Jazz to Come is the third album by the jazz musician Ornette Coleman. Released on Atlantic Records in 1959, it was his debut on the label and his first album featuring the working quartet including himself, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Billy Higgins. [3] The recording session for the album took place on ...
Ascension is a jazz album by John Coltrane recorded in June 1965 and released in 1966. It is considered a watershed in Coltrane's work, with the albums recorded before it being more conventional in structure and the albums recorded after it being looser, free jazz inspired works. In addition, it signaled Coltrane's interest in moving away from ...
Leo. Rounder. Le Sony'r Ra [2] (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances. For much of his career, Ra led The Arkestra, an ...
Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018) [1] [2] [3] was an American pianist and poet. [4] [5] Taylor was classically trained and was one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an energetic, physical approach, resulting in complex improvisation often involving tone clusters and intricate polyrhythms.
Live at Birdland (stylized on the cover as Coltrane live at Birdland) is an album by the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. It was released on January 9, 1964 through Impulse! Records. [1] [2] [3] Three of its tracks were recorded live at the Birdland club and two are studio recordings. Among them is "Alabama", a tribute to four black ...