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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Free Jazz"”.
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Improvising pianists : aspects of keyboard technique and musical structure in free jazz - 1955-1980
The jazz avant-garde of the 60s and 70s has often been depicted as a movement that signalled the end of jazz as we had come to know it, a movement of unbridled musical energy and passion without the essential restraining influences of formal guidelines and reverence for - traditions. With the …
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Freedom Now!: Four Hard Bop and Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians' Musical Commentary on the Civil Rights Movement, 1958-1964.
… study, I examined musical recordings from the jazz idiom that relate to events or ideas involved in the Civil Rights Movement during the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s. The study focused on the four following musicians' recordings: Charles Mingus, <em>Fables of Faubus</em>; Sonny Rollins, …
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Animate Structures: The Compositions and Improvisations of the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra
… a background in experimental music as well as free jazz, their performance practice differs in many respects from the practices of American forms of jazz. Whereas most accounts of improvisation emphasise orality and creative interaction in opposition to the performance of composed music, …