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12-27-2010, 04:00 AM | #1 (permalink) | |
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Shake Your Jazz Hands, It's Free Jazz Week!
Yup, it's free jazz week. As far as I can tell, free jazz has no strict definition as the term usually describes something the music is not or does not do, such as follow typical jazz conventions.
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12-27-2010, 03:24 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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Without doubt my favorite subgenre of jazz.
Obligatory, sure, but Al's playing is always beautiful. Anarchic. Favorite jazz album of all-time. Only fair that it gets its place. Its free-ness is debatable, though. This one needs a lot of time to unfold, but it grows into something wonderful. Really cool to watch; the sound quality is sort of low, but just seeing how they react to one another is wonderful in itself. And of course, Ascension is necessary. I second it. |
12-27-2010, 03:36 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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I bought Ornette Coleman's 1959 (finally released in 1961) album the Art of the Improvisers as blind purchase at my local second hand vinyl shop when I was a teenage fanboy of mostly sixties psychedelic bands and early protopunk rockers like the New York Dolls, Patti Smith, and the Ramones. I had no idea of what Ornette sounded like or what free jazz was. Nothing had prepared me for the inspired chaos and sublime fury of Circle With the Hole in the Middle. The urgency of the music hit me with the force of a sledgehammer.
Circle With the Hole in the Middle the first song on the album, opened my eyes to an entire realm of musical possibilities that I was previously unaware of. Strangely enough, not a single of the millions of YouTube members had posted a copy of this song so I went ahead and posted it myself so you could hear it.
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12-27-2010, 04:41 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Free jazz is not my favourite sub-genre (I think it's sort of an acquired taste), but I still listen to it from time to time. I have to be in the mood for it
I also don't know a whole lot about it, and it was sort of skipped over in my Jazz history class. It wasn't even an essay topic! But here are some pieces that were included on the CD's that came with the textbook: Sun Ra - Distant Stars Eric Dolphy - Gazzelloni (there's some pretty cool flute in this piece too! ) Albert Ayler - Spirits |
12-27-2010, 04:43 PM | #5 (permalink) | |
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12-27-2010, 05:33 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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I'm never sure when Jazz is 'free'. It's a thin line between free and 'regular' jazz.
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12-27-2010, 10:22 PM | #8 (permalink) | |
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Jazz in itself doesn't have many strict guidelines either. I think free jazz, for all intents and purposes, was (or is) a sort of a break away from the more established sub-genres of jazz. Like when Coltrane started making more avant-garde records. But you're right, sometimes it is hard to tell them apart. I just think of free jazz as being more modal, in terms of harmonic structure, as opposed to using more traditional scales and chords found in "regular" jazz music. |
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