This could be interesting, as it would erode the often clear divide between work-in-progress and completed piece, moving towards free jazz improvisation and happenings.
We would have solo saxophone stuff, free jazz, or electronic stuff - we couldn't do a band really, with drums or anything like that.
By the 1960s, bop had become the new jazz orthodoxy and would subsequently be opposed to ' free jazz' and, later, fusion.
His jazz background has proved invaluable in his collaborations with exponents of free jazz and other improvising collectives.
Changes in taste have been so rapid that musicians today who play contemporar y styles, including free jazz, are much more likely to be seen as interesting practitioners than iconoclasts.
Reissue of the classic 1977 account of the free jazz scene.
Free jazz and honking sessions rarely get this good.
He then studied other genres, including blues, country, bluegrass, free jazz, and noiseeventually synthesizing all those heterogeneous influences into a unique style of his own.