free jazz

A cluster of jazz styles (post-1954) that minimize the importance of a fixed beat and a given harmonic structure, and emphasize the sound and texture of music.


Bending the Blend, Bergman/Braxton/Brotzmann (1997)



John Coltrane, "Vigil" (1965)

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