Avant-garde jazz
Avant-garde jazz | |
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Stylistic origins | Jazz, bebop, free jazz, modernism, avant-garde, 20th century classical music |
Cultural origins | Mid-1950s United States |
Derivative forms | Noise rock, math rock |
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Jazz fusion |
Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. It originated in the 1950s and developed through the 1960s.
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History
1950s
Avant-garde jazz originated in the mid- to late 1950s among a group of improvisors who rejected the conventions of bebop and post bop in an effort to blur the division between the written and the spontaneous. Initially the term was synonymous with free jazz, though it came to be applied to music differing from that style, emphasizing structure and organization by the use of composed melodies, shifting but nevertheless predetermined meters and tonalities, and distinctions between soloists and accompaniment. Musicians identified with this early stage of the style include Cecil Taylor, Lennie Tristano, Jimmy Giuffre, Sun Ra, and Ornette Coleman.[1]
1960s
In Chicago, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians began pursuing their own variety of avant-garde jazz. The AACM musicians (Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Hamid Drake, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago) tended towards eclecticism.[2]
See also
Notable avant-jazz musicians
- Miles Davis
- George Adams
- Albert Ayler
- Derek Bailey
- Han Bennink
- Ed Blackwell
- Carla Bley
- Anthony Braxton
- Don Cherry (trumpeter)
- Ornette Coleman
- John Coltrane
- Billie Davies
- Ernest Dawkins
- Eric Dolphy
- Scott Fields
- Mike Garson
- Charles Gayle
- Globe Unity Orchestra
- Joe Harriott
- Theo Jörgensmann
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk
- Jeanne Lee
- Joe McPhee
- Myra Melford
- Misha Mengelberg
- Charles Mingus
- Don Pullen
- Sam Rivers
- Alexander von Schlippenbach
- Matthew Shipp
- Sun Ra
- Cecil Taylor
- Arto Tunçboyacıyan
- Patty Waters
- John Zorn
Bibliography
- Berendt, Joachim E. (1992). The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond. Revised by Günther Huesmann, translated by H. and B. Bredigkeit with Dan Morgenstern. Brooklyn: Lawrence Hill Books. ISBN 1-55652-098-0