Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is an album by the jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman. It was released through Atlantic Records in September...

term "free jazz" was drawn from the 1960 Ornette Coleman recording Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. Europeans tend to favor the term "free improvisation"...

Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any general rules, instead following the intuition of its performers. The term can refer to...

including on the pioneering free jazz albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1961). Cherry also collaborated...

while the emergence of free jazz has led to a variety of types of improvisation, such as "free blowing", in which soloists improvise freely and ignore the...

the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. His pioneering works often abandoned the harmony-based...

with the early work of Ornette Coleman (whose 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation coined the term) and Cecil Taylor. In the 1960s, exponents...

dance improvisation. Many other important tenets of dance improvisation come from and were innovated by the African American community. From jazz to blues...

sessions of 1959 to 1961 for The Shape of Jazz to Come, This Is Our Music, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation, and Ornette! Sessions for "Monk and the...

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the form as constantly getting lost, but instead as a through-composed collective improvisation. Ornette uses pure melody to shape his solo. [Charlie]...

Contact improvisation is a practice of movement research, where improvisation and momentum, relation with gravity and with others are the main focus....

percussion on live shows) Ornette Coleman, first with his album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation an early and seminal example of double drumming; and occasionally...

genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars...

Coleman (Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation and the Free Jazz outtake on Twins). He also worked and recorded with Gunther Schuller (Jazz Abstractions)...

extraordinarily well. It may not quite match the audacity and shock value of Free Jazz, but when you've just razed the scaffolds of structured music, it's probably...

residency at the Five Spot Café in Manhattan. Blackwell became a pioneering free jazz drummer, fusing New Orleans and African rhythms with bebop. Blackwell...

an important figure in the free improvisation movement. Bailey abandoned conventional performance techniques found in jazz, exploring atonality, noise...

Century (Atlantic, 1959) This Is Our Music (Atlantic, 1960) Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (Atlantic, 1961) The Empty Foxhole (Blue Note, 1966) Ornette...

swinging, subtle jazz" and in pursuit of "the joy of collective improvisation and counterpoint." Gerry Mulligan, with Chet Baker, formed a pianoless quartet...

With Ornette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (Atlantic, 1961) Ornette! (Atlantic, 1962) The Art of the Improvisers (Atlantic, 1970) – recorded...

Coleman's octet (or "double quartet") recording, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation, which—like Ascension—is a continuous 40-minute performance with ensemble...

October 13, 1958) is an American free improvising electric bassist. He is one of the founding members of the improvising band Machine Gun with Thomas Chapin...

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Last Amendment, formerly known as The Crass Collective and Crass Agenda, is the working title of a series of collaborations by ex-members of the anarcho-punk...

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Extraordinary." A writer for The Free Jazz Collective remarked: "the music evolves from high speed and intense music with lots of soloing to a calmer atmosphere...

The Dave Brubeck Quartet (Columbia) Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation - Ornette Coleman (Atlantic) Coltrane Jazz - John Coltrane (Atlantic) My Favorite...

1959) The Art of the Improvisers (Atlantic, 1959) To Whom Who Keeps a Record (Warner, 1959–60) Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (Atlantic, 1961) Twins...

of New Orleans jazz. Jazz is generally characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Prohibition in...