Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hitting you like a kick in the ear. Free jazz dispenses with the chord progressions and set rhythm that traditionally have ordered jazz, leaving each member of a group free to improvise both notes and tempo. It is intense sounding and often looks to the emotional power of African music for its antecedents. Says Taylor: "One of the things I had to divorce myself from was the constraint or control that European music imposes, that we will do this or that. No, no, no, I say to myself. I must like my music. It must sound good...
...worst, free jazz borders on bedlam. At its best-as in the Newport concerts of Taylor and Coleman-the music has internal rhythms and themes that give it direction. For 50 minutes, Taylor-hallmark shades and knit cap in place-and his sidemen wrapped Carnegie Hall in a solid sheet of sound, each member of the group swapping and developing ideas from the others. A frenzied, virtuoso performer, Taylor roiled tempests on the bass of the piano, then modulated into short phrases and lyrical passages that contained echoes of Bartók and Debussy...
...Rivbea sounds Rivers' own extended free-form music: "Spontaneous on-the-spot creation and improvisation." Perhaps the most vital avant-garde spawning ground of all is Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a collective that was created in 1965. It encompasses all styles from straight African rhythms to bebop to the avant-garde's specialty: grunts and wails and bizarre instrumental effects that were ignored during bebop's preoccupation with fluency and speed. A.A.C.M.'s alumni include two emerging jazz stars: Saxophonist Anthony Braxton, 33, and Pianist Muhal Richard Abrams...
Most Americans have never heard the free sounds of progressive jazz. The reason is simple: major record companies tend to produce old reliables and lucrative fusion music; they are unwilling to promote the experimental edge. A few of the best progressive practitioners, among them Jarrett and Trumpeter Don Cherry, 41, record in Europe. One of the few outfits supporting this hard-to-absorb music is New York's nonprofit New Music Distribution Service. Says Drummer Beaver Harris, one of the artists who uses the service: "What the major record companies produce isn't always what's happening...
Says Dan Morgenstern, keeper of Rutgers University's jazz museum: "We have the living representatives of every style we know-ranging from Ragtime Pianist Eubie Blake, 95, to the great musicians of the swing era and beyond-and you can see all the different music as belonging to the same stream of things." The venerables are revered by young musicians, and a surprising number of the young are choosing to go into the older forms of jazz. The young turks in the trumpet section of Puente's Orchestra are all dying to rip off a brilliant solo...