Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz, experimental jazz, or "new thing") is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. It originated in the early 1950s and developed through to the late 1960s. One of the earliest developments within avant-garde jazz was that of free jazz, and the two terms were originally synonymous. Much avant-garde jazz is stylistically distinct, however, in that it lacks free jazz's thoroughly improvised nature and is either fully or partially composed. Quotes about Avant-garde jazz Cecil Taylor, one of the leaders of [the avant-garde jazz] movement, once made a revealing aside. "To feel" he explained, "is the most terrifying thing in this society." We should approach avant-garde jazz with his injunction in mind, striving to feel rather than merely intellectualize the music. Ted Gioia in How to Listen to Jazz. page 134-135. Basic Books. (2016) External links Category:Jazz