Avantgarde-Jazz

Avant-garde jazz is, in simple terms, free jazz in regular size ( pieces, verses ), a regular rhythm and regular pace. Other musical elements such as melody and chords are relatively free. In parts of pieces, so-called free passages, even form, rhythm or tempo -free.

The term avant-garde jazz has existed since the 1950s, but won from about 1990, a new and stronger meaning. Since the completely unbound free jazz of the 1960s emerged in 1980 with the free radio, connected with musicians such as James Blood Ulmer ( guitar) and Ronald Shannon Jackson ( drums), first -known intermediates bound and unbound jazz styles. In Free Funk rang free melody and chords to hard bound rhythm, such as occurs in the radio, the successor style of soul, the very tough and rugged style of music Afro-American origin in the 1960s. Around 1990 was a wide style range of different types of bands in the then-new New York live music site Knitting Factory (see also: John Zorn ) recorded as LP or CD marketed and so successful worldwide that they sought a term for this first as a conglomerate appearing new style area.

Two directions attained greater importance: the freer, for the term avant-garde jazz described above prevailed long as the label for a time; as well as to Jewish music elements ( Klezmer ) professional end direction which reached its very own global success and thereby fixed term was. In contrast, the term avant-garde jazz has always remained somewhat brittle; also has become the norm for this style of jazz, the term experimental jazz. Even a third direction put on: the integration of the computer with band sets instead of a musician, or as a "musician". Such approaches fall time being, even among avant-garde jazz; the implications of such developments is not yet in sight, and thus also not the creation of new styles and names.

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