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Free jazz or Free Form in the early to mid-1970s [1] is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes. Musicians during this period believed that the ...
Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it ...
They secured sponsorship from Pan Am and the tobacco company Souza Cruz, a subsidiary of British-American Tobaccos, who made "Free" cigarettes, naming the festival Free Jazz Festival. The success of the festival increased sales of jazz records in Brazil, influencing EMI and WEA Brazil to release more American jazz artists and Brazilian ...
"Cry and Be Free" – Marilyn "Dance Hall Days" – Wang Chung "Dance Me Up" – Gary Glitter "Dancing in the Dark" – Bruce Springsteen "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" – Ultravox "Desert Moon" – Dennis DeYoung "Distant Early Warning" – Rush "Doctor! Doctor!" – Thompson Twins "Don't Blame It on Love" – Shakatak "Don't Tell Me ...
Ethno jazz, a form of ethno music, is sometimes equaled to world music or is regarded as its successor, particularly before the 1990s. An independent meaning of "ethno jazz" emerged around 1990. 1990s -> European free jazz: European free jazz is a part of the global free jazz scene with its own development and characteristics. 1960s -> Flamenco ...
Straight-ahead jazz is a genre of jazz that developed in the 1960s, with roots in the prior two decades. It omits the rock music and free jazz influences that began to appear in jazz during this period, instead preferring acoustic instruments, conventional piano comping, walking bass patterns, and swing- and bop-based drum rhythms.
A− [6] Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is an album by the jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman. It was released through Atlantic Records in September 1961: the fourth of Coleman's six albums for the label. Its title named the then-nascent free jazz movement.
The Dazzle ships of the 14–18 NOW project are artworks created to commemorate the work of the artists and artisans who developed and designed the dazzle camouflage used in the First World War by ships as a defence against U-boat attack. Dazzle camouflage involved covering a ship's hull with bespoke geometric patterns in contrasting colours ...