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Subject(s)

• Free jazz—History and criticism [Browse]
• Jazz—1961-1970—History and criticism [Browse]
• Jazz—1951-1960—History and criticism [Browse]
• Jazz—Political aspects—History—20th century [Browse]

Series

Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

By 1960, musicians, critics, record buyers, and club patrons in New York City agreed that a "new thing" in jazz had arrived. That new thing was what we in the twenty-first century call free jazz, and it represented a significant change within and, for some, a dramatic departure from what was commonly understood as modern jazz. Author Kwami Coleman integrates musical analyses of key recordings, musician interviews, periodicals, and rare archival sources to tell the story of jazz's emergent avant-garde, providing readers with ways to listen to and understand this innovative and disruptive music.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 7, 2025).

Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Figures
• Foreword
• Preface
• Opening: "Free" Jazz
• Serious Creative Work
• Heterophony Is Change
• Limits of Modern Jazz
• Method and Scope
• 1 Shapes of Jazz to Come
• John Lewis's Modern Jazz Society
• Brubeck's À la Mode
• Yusef Lateef's Eastern Sounds
• 2 Free to Not Make Sense
• Ornette's Something Else
• Presumed Dysfunctional
• Ornette Coleman at Town Hall, 1962
• Naming Jazz's Avant-Garde
• 3 Interlude: Points of Departure
• Transgressive Creative Work
• The "Changing Same"
• 4 Sound and Fury
• Style and Revolution
• Cecil Taylor: Bartók in Reverse
• New Units, Same Structures
• "An Outlaw Art"
• 5 Anti Jazz, Anti Music
• Rollins Finds Cherry
• Coltrane's "Anti-Jazz" and Ascension
• Tony Williams's "Anti-Music"
• The "Anti-Traditional Art"
• Closing: Black Power
• Electrifying Sound
• Selected Discography
• Appendix
• Notes
• Chapter 1: Shapes of Jazz to Come
• Chapter 2: Free to Not Make Sense
• Chapter 3: Interlude: Points of Departure
• Chapter 4: Sound and Fury
• Chapter 5: Anti Jazz, Anti Music
• Selected Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-19-778011-3
• 0-19-778012-1
• 0-19-778010-5

OCLC

1509694234

Doi

10.1093/9780197780121.001.0001

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