Free Jazz & Avant-Garde
Free jazz is an experimental subgenre of jazz that emerged in the late 1950s, employing irregular tempos, atonal chords and fast, abrasive improvisation. The term 'Free Jazz' was coined by Ornette Coleman for his 1961 album of the same name. The style developed from musicians who felt themselves limited by the conventions of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz. As the 1960s progressed free jazz morphed into the more politicised 'Fire Music' of John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, and Albert Ayler. The term is often used interchangeably with 'avant-garde jazz' and 'free improvisation', the latter being the preferred term by European musicians.
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