MUS 2000 Chapter : Free Jazz
Document Summary
A term first applied to the avant-garde jazz of the 1960"s. Main artists: ornette coleman, cecil taylor, albert ayler, late coltrane. This term is applied to highly individual styles. Abandonment of the chorus structure and formal constructions. Avoidance of traditional sounds, and replaced by voice-like sounds. Extensive manipulation of tone quality and pitch, they play out of tune. This music used high energy and gestures as opposed to development of melodies. Probably the least popular style in jazz history. Most pivotal recordings are no longer in print. This term refers to one element of music becoming tightly controlled while others are completely free. Example pulse is very structured while traditional harmony and melody are abandoned. Harmolodic a term he invented to describe simultaneous soundings of a single melodic line, in different tonalities, pitches, or keys. Does not play with modern jazz swing feeling, instead he emphasizes musical textures rather than musical lines.
