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Free jazz. 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.
Pages in category "American women jazz singers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 411 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In the 1920s, women singing jazz music were not many, but women playing instruments in jazz music were even less common. Mary Lou Williams, known for her talent as a piano player, is deemed as one of the "mothers of jazz" due to her singing while playing the piano at the same time. Lovie Austin (1887–1972) was a piano player and bandleader.
In the late 1960s, Latin jazz, combining rhythms from African and Latin American countries, often played on instruments such as conga, timbale, güiro, and claves, with jazz and classical harmonies played on typical jazz instruments (piano, double bass, etc.) broke through. There are two main varieties: Afro-Cuban jazz was played in the US ...
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 recording session took place on December 21, 1960, at A&R Studios in New ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Jazz pianists. It includes jazz pianists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for articles about women jazz pianists .
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Jazz music was an influence in helping women gain jobs, as well as opening the environment for post-war equality and freer sexuality in the early twentieth century. [citation needed] Many of the women in jazz music at the time helped influence the genre and many jazz women musicians were people of color. These factors helped grow the genre to ...