MUS-208 Chapter Notes -Ornette Coleman, Modal Jazz, Cecil Taylor
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The avant-garde of a developing art form implies a conscious breaking away from the tradition established by that art form. The effectiveness of free form jazz performance rests in the individual and collective of the players carry over into the performance rests in the individual and collective compositional strengths of the players. The individual musical characteristics of the players carry over into the performance itself, instilling it with a unique trademark that unifies and narrows the infinite possibilities. It was ornette coleman, however, who drew the sharpest line between the traditional jazz idiom and his new expression as he coined the name, free jazz. Saxophonist ornette coleman was one of the most controversial free jazz players. In the late 1980"s, coleman continued to push into new theoretical and philosophical areas with his proposed harmolodic theory. Cecil taylor contribution was an integration of a conservatory technical facility and.
