Free jazz developed in America during the late 1950s and early ‘60s, as musicians sought to break down and reject conventions within bebop and hard bop that they found restrictive, including harmony and chord changes, regular tempos, and compositional forms.

Ornette Coleman’s ground-breaking quartet played music that was swinging, bluesy and based upon memorable melodies, but with solo sections that dispensed with rigid form and harmony.

American free jazz in the 1960s was often proudly Afrocentric, with links to the civil rights movement.

The term Avant garde jazz is often used interchangeably with free jazz, but it may also use more written material, often taking influence from contemporary classical music.

European ‘improvised music’ began to develop later in the 1960. It tends to be less connected to the jazz tradition than earlier American free jazz, and often doesn’t contain any prepared material at all.

Best free jazz albums

Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come Peace 

Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch
Hat and Beard 

John Coltrane – Ascension Ascension 

Alice Coltrane – Universal Consciousness Hare Krishna 

Cecil Taylor – Unit Structures Steps 

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Free jazz developed in America during the late 1950s and early ‘60s, as musicians sought to break down and reject conventions within bebop and hard bop that they found restrictive, including harmony and chord changes, regular tempos, and compositional forms.

Ornette Coleman’s ground-breaking quartet played music that was swinging, bluesy and based upon memorable melodies, but with solo sections that dispensed with rigid form and harmony.

American free jazz in the 1960s was often proudly Afrocentric, with links to the civil rights movement.

The term Avant garde jazz is often used interchangeably with free jazz, but it may also use more written material, often taking influence from contemporary classical music.

European ‘improvised music’ began to develop later in the 1960. It tends to be less connected to the jazz tradition than earlier American free jazz, and often doesn’t contain any prepared material at all.

Best free jazz albums

Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come Peace 

Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch
Hat and Beard 

John Coltrane – Ascension Ascension 

Alice Coltrane – Universal Consciousness Hare Krishna 

Cecil Taylor – Unit Structures Steps 

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