Change : the new thing and modern jazzColeman, KwamiEnglishBookBy 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.2025New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]©2025Free jazz—History and criticismJazz—1961-1970—History and criticismJazz—1951-1960—History and criticismJazz—Political aspects—History—20th centuryBook978019778011497801977801219780197780107