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- The 20 Best Free Jazz Albums As Determined By A Polling Of RYM Members. Author: RIStout. Calculated May 2006. With average star rating (I will try to update this every couple of months) and first-place votes in parenthesis.
Do you appreciate Jazz? You will after listening to the albums in this edition of Sound Sunday! And if you already like Jazz, you'll love what I have for you this week.
Dixieland and swing stylists improvise melodically, and bop, cool, and hard bop players follow chord structures in their solos. Free Jazz was a radical departure from past styles, for typically after playing a quick theme, the soloist does not have to follow any progression or structure and can go in any unpredictable direction. When Ornette Coleman largely introduced free jazz to New York audiences (although Cecil Taylor had preceded him with less publicity), many bop musicians and fans debated about whether what was being played would even qualify as music; the radicals had become conservatives in less than 15 years. Free jazz, which overlaps with the avant garde (the latter can use arrangements and sometimes fairly tight frameworks), remains a controversial and mostly underground style, influencing the modern mainstream while often being ignored. Having dispensed with many of the rules as far as pitch, rhythm, and development are concerned (although it need not be atonal or lack a steady pulse to be free jazz), the success of a free jazz performance can be measured by the musicianship and imagination of the performers, how colorful the music is, and whether it seems logical or merely random.
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| Title/Composer | Performer | Stream |
|---|---|---|
| Free Jazz | Ornette Coleman | |
| A Love Supreme, Pt. 1: Acknowledgement | John Coltrane | |
| Out to Lunch | Eric Dolphy | |
| Space Is the Place | Sun Ra | |
| Journey in Satchidananda | Alice Coltrane | |
| Creator Has a Master Plan Pharoah Sanders / Leon Thomas | Pharoah Sanders | |
| Machine Gun | Peter Brötzmann Octet | |
| Excursion on a Wobbly Rail | Cecil Taylor | |
| Flowers for Albert | David Murray | |
| Blinks | Steve Lacy Five |