Avant-garde jazz

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Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines elements of avant-garde art music and composition with elements of traditional jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, contrary to the impression it may give that results from a very distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which improvisation may take place and often it may be partially or even completely composed note for note in advance.

Notable avant-jazz musicians

• Rufus Harley Jazz Bagpipes
• Muhal Richard Abrams
• George Adams
• Art Ensemble of Chicago
• Albert Ayler
• Derek Bailey
• Django Bates
• Ed Blackwell
• Anthony Braxton
• Ornette Coleman
• Don Cherry
• John Coltrane (later period)
• Eric Dolphy
• Mike Garson
• Globe Unity Orchestra
• Charlie Haden
• Joe Harriott
• Roy Haynes
• Dave Holland
• Andrew Hill
• Theo Jörgensmann
• Jeanne Lee
• Joe McPhee
• Medeski, Martin, & Wood
• Misha Mengelberg
• Charles Mingus
• Roscoe Mitchell
• Evan Parker
• Don Pullen
• Sam Rivers
• Pharoah Sanders
• Archie Shepp
• Sun Ra
• Cecil Taylor
• Thee Immortals
• Arto Tunçboyacıyan (folk-jazz)
• Alexander von Schlippenbach
• John Zorn
• Paul F Murphy
• The Bad Plus

See also

• Free jazz
• European free jazz

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