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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 ...
The Avant-Garde is an album credited to jazz musicians John Coltrane and Don Cherry that was released in 1966 by Atlantic Records. It features Coltrane playing several compositions by Ornette Coleman accompanied by the members of Coleman's quartet: Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell. The album was assembled from two unissued recording ...
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 ...
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 ensemble with ...
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 Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians ( AACM) in the late 1960s. [1] The ensemble integrates many jazz styles and plays many instruments, including "little instruments": bells, bicycle horns, birthday party noisemakers, wind chimes, and various forms ...
The album was ranked number 246 in Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album's rank dropped to number 248 in the 2012 update of the list, and to number 417 in the 2020 update. The album was identified by Chris Kelsey in his AllMusic essay "Free Jazz: A Subjective History" as one of the 20 Essential ...
Spiritual Unity is a studio album by American free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler. It was recorded on July 10, 1964 in New York City, and features bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray. It was the first album recorded for Bernard Stollman 's ESP-Disk label, and it brought Ayler to international attention as it was so "shockingly ...