FREE JAZZ

FREE JAZZ (c. 1960). This type of jazz was supposed to be free of any preconceived notions of melody, harmony, or rhythm. The crucial example was the 1960 Ornette Coleman LP, Free Jazz, in which a pair of four-man ensembles were invited to play simultaneously, supposedly with no preconceived score. Actually, group passages were preplanned, while the rhythm section never drops out completely. Because all eight musicians never improvise at once, usually a solo voice emerges from the crowd only to…