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

musical text." Improvisation is often done within (or based on) a pre-existing harmonic framework or chord progression. Improvisation is a major part...

Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in...

un-foreseen. Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of improvisation can apply...

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

including body mapping through levels, shape and dynamics schema. Improvisation is a free, seemingly unstructured, less technically strict and impulsive...

free improvisation by the Lennie Tristano quintet. It was recorded on May 16, 1949, and is credited as being one of the first two freely improvised jazz...

utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste or inclination...

This is a list of musicians and groups who compose and play free music, or free improvisation. In alphabetical order: Susan Alcorn – pedal steel guitar...

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art is a book written by Stephen Nachmanovitch and originally published in 1990 by Jeremy Tarcher of the Penguin Group...

Jamie Muir, an experimental free-improvising percussionist who had previously been performing in the Music Improvisation Company with Derek Bailey and...

statements and chorus structure improvisation, or the abandonment entirely of underlying chorus structure beneath improvisation. Miles Davis was particularly...

David Cross on the mid-1970s band's approach to improvisation. King Crimson incorporated improvisation into their performances and studio recordings from...

work ever since. In 2004 Dunietz began a new musical practice of free improvisation, deeply influenced by the values of this musical practice. She approached...

Machine Gun is an improvising band formed in New York City in 1986. Its members were Robert Musso: guitars, Thomas Chapin: reeds and flute, John Lunar...

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

creative process. Improvisation is a creative process which can be spoken, written, or composed without prior preparation. Improvisation, also called extemporization...

free improvisation, free jazz and noise music. Cadenzas are most often in unmeasured rhythm, and so is recitative. Examples of music written in free time...

was an English avant-garde guitarist and an important figure in the free improvisation movement. Bailey abandoned conventional performance techniques found...

kits. They were one of the first free improvising musicians using turntables. Their music mixed free jazz, improvisation, rock and experimental noise. Their...

plays free improvisation. Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz...

elements with other musical styles, such as funk, electronic music, and free improvisation. Nu jazz typically ventures further into the electronic territory...

Miles Davis, jazz improvisation has come to include modal harmony and improvisation over static key centers, while the emergence of free jazz has led to...

improv company Improvisation, Inc. was the only company in America continuing to perform the group's "original" Harold: a 45-minute free-form piece that...

incorporating the sounds of diverse genres, including punk rock, free jazz, and free improvisation. About his tendencies as a composer, Keszler has stated "Oftentimes...

Company was a collection of free improvising musicians. The concept was devised by guitarist Derek Bailey, in order to create challenging and artistically...

guitarist and composer whose work combines elements of blues, punk, and free improvisation. Inspired by seeing Muddy Waters in The Last Waltz, Orcutt began playing...

recent compositions have drawn increasingly on musical minimalism and free improvisation. David Sylvian was born David Alan Batt in Beckenham, Kent, England...

musical and personal influence on his own thinking about music and improvisation. Jarrett performs on several Davis albums, including Miles Davis at...

Peter Evans is an improvising trumpeter who specializes in free improvisation and avant-garde music. Evans graduated from The Oberlin Conservatory of...