Avant Garde Jazz
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This constantly
experimental jazz pianist
has charted his own
idiosyncratic path for close
to fifty years now. Hill has...
This multi-reedist is one of
the more prolific
composers in Avant-Jazz,
with works spanning thirty
years.
With a theatrical and
indigenous spirit, this
African-influenced
Avant-Jazz ensemble was
popular in the '70s and '80...
Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell
paints audible landscapes
with his subtle country
twang and wonderful
tonality. Frisell wrote and...
A major force in modern
experimental Big Band jazz,
Bley's music is always as
intriguing as her
manufactured hairstyles.
A free-thinking bassist and
masterful composer, Mingus
amassed a body of work
that was as deep as it was
(often) playful. Mingus co...
This amazingly gifted jazz
bassist helped spearhead
avant garde free jazz and
now carries the torch for
mainstream bop.
Though he started out as a
jazz outsider, Dave Douglas
is now considered one of
the bright lights of the new
generation. At first know...
Dave Holland has
deservedly won fame in the
jazz world after years of
critical respect. Though
Holland has many differen...
Tenorist David Murray
ranges from abstract to
conventional, with anything
from solo to experimental
Big Band arrangements.
Don Pullen has a wide range
of releases from
straight-ahead jazz to '70s
Funk, much like fellow
piano/organist Herbie Han...
Along with Coltrane and
Coleman, Dolphy created
and nurtured Avant Garde
Jazz. Classically trained,
there was always a firm m...
In addition to many years as
an Avant-Garde solo artist,
alto, and flutist Henry
Threadgill was a member of
the group Air.
One of the few Free Jazz
guitar players around,
James Blood Ulmer picks
just as free and wild as
Ornette Coleman blows.
Guiffre's Cool Jazz clarinet
was a mainstay of the 1950s
and his subsequent
Avant-Garde work retains a
lyrical edge.
A gentle revolutionary,
Coltrane's alternately
blistering & blissful sax still
astounds. Coltrane became
a star sideman playing wit...
A one-man cottage industry
who never sits still, Zorn is
the driving force in modern
improvisatory music.
The late Lester Bowie's free
Funk style mixed with
ensemble arrangements
presents a post-Big Band
kind of Avant-Jazz.
The iconoclastic alto sax
player has put the "free"
into Free Jazz for more than
four decades. This
revolutionary saxophonis...
Lyrical or densely complex,
this jazz pianist has been on
the cutting edge since his
days with Ornette Coleman.
Roscoe Mitchell has been a
bandleader in a variety of
Avant-Jazz ensembles for
the past thirty years.
Technically brilliant, this
saxophonist started as a
Post Bop pioneer before
going completely outside
the mainstream.
Saxophonist Steve Coleman
is a true pioneer of
Funk-based Avant-Jazz and
is well known for his
equation-based music the...
Lacy has been around the
Jazz block, collaborating
with a cast of greats such as
Gil Evans, Cecil Talyor and
Thelonious Monk. One of...
Lead by alto saxophonist
(and actor) John Lurie, this
cinematic and exuberant
Avant Jazz ensemble is from
downtown NYC. John Lur...
Artistically accomplished
and experimental, the WSQ
has found a wide general
audience for Avant-Garde
jazz.
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