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Two camps of free jazz

The Radicals, The Moderates

Free jazz free of

“Free” of traditional
restraints of:
• Instrumental
relationships
• Melodies
• Chords
• Swing rhythms
• Meter
• Form

Ornette Coleman
Instrument
Famous 1960 album
Number of musicians
Trumpet playing partner

alto sax


1960: “Free Jazz”


Classic quartet:
• Don Cherry (trumpet), Billy Higgins (drum) Charlie Haden (bass)

Cecil Taylor
Instrument
Band name
Influences

piano


Cecil Taylor Unit formed
• Energy Jazz
• Unit Structures


Mixed European structure with African
American emotion

Sun Ra
Location
Instrument
Claimed to have been born on
Band name

Chicago


Electric Piano


Born on Saturn


Band called: Myth-Science Arkestra

AACM
Where
Founded by

Association for the Advancement of
Creative Musicians (AACM) CHICAGO
– 1965: Formed by pianist Muhal Richard
Abrahms
– Musical Co-op
• Staged concerts
• Helped musicians find work
• Older taught younger
• Ethical standards

Black Artist Guild
Where

St Louis, 1968-1972
– Music, Theater,
Dance, Poetry, Film
– Musicians included
members of World
Saxophone Quartet

Post bop
Define

– Absorbed some elements of free
• Retained tuning, tone, attack, meter,
chord progressions
• Diluted standard harmonies
• Altered drumming
–Irregular accents
–Group interaction

Miles Davis 2nd Quintet
Members and instruments

Ron Carter - bass


Tony Williams - Drums


Herbie Hancock - piano


George Coleman - Tenor Sax


(Wayne Shorter replaced Coleman)

Define Playing Outside

describes an approach where one plays over a scale, mode or chord that is harmonically distant from the given chord.

Bill Evans
Instrument
Define Secundal and Quartal harmony
Bassist

Tenor Sax


Secundal chords can be decomposed into a series of (major or minor) seconds.


Quartal chords can be decomposed into a series of (perfect or augmented) fourths.


Great trio
• Scott LaFaro - bass
• Paul Motian - drums