MUS 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ornette Coleman, Free Jazz, Key Signature
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Avante garde: believed that jazz should not exist within musical rules at all. Disregards time signatures, and chord structure, no key signature no form. Music was based off of improvisation but improvisation was the personal response of the player. Jazz is free vs. jazz is too free. Albert murray: doesn"t understand coleman, it is too free you can"t embrace entropy because chaos is not liberating. Free jazz is so free of rules that it"s liberating. Sometimes you have to embrace chaos: self-indulgent but it"s also linked heavily to personal expression and individuality. Free jazz came about at the time civil rights was. Cecil taylor: avant garde pianist he represented everything people loved and hated about the avant garde, pure energy.
