Characteristics of this “avant-garde” movement in jazz are: Freedom from American song form Freedom from major minor systems of tonal organization Freedom from traditional rhythmic and metric …

The first half of Chapter Two is an exegesis of avant-gardism in critical jazz literature; the second half of the chapter goes into detail on the improvisational and compositional techniques of the jazz avant …

Creative jazz musicians began to question the rules governing traditional performance practices. Free jazz, or the more radical term avant-garde, implies almost total spontaneity where the improvisational …

A term applied to avant-garde jazz of the 1960s and more generally to experimental performance approaches that were employed before and after that decade.

Later recordings by members, particularly in their incarnation as the World Sax Quartet, are most interesting avant-garde jazz performances (challenging yet accessible, yet always groovy), but even …

In this essay, I focus on the relationship between writers associated with the Black Arts Movement and the experimental directions in jazz that occurred during the 1960s, the decade generally associated …

explore the cultural values that underpinned the making of jazz as British art music at a particular historical conjuncture, and the implications of these values for the relationship of jazz and race.