ғʀᴇᴇ ᴊᴀᴢᴢ (1960) - ᴏʀɴᴇᴛᴛᴇ ᴄᴏʟᴇᴍᴀɴ

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1959 - Ornette Coleman perform in NYC

quartet: alto sax, trumpet, bass, drums

no chordal/harmonic instrument

make music function in linear, horizontal fashion

did not intend for music to accompany dancing

The Shape of Jazz to Come - Lonely Woman,
bass moves at one speed, cymbals at another, 
sax and trumpet different tempos

indeterminacy of composers like John Cage

1960 - put together 2 piano-less quartets

bassists: Charlie Haden, Scott LaFaro

trumpets: freddie Hubbard, Dan Cherry

drummers: Ed Blackwell, Billy Higgins

woodwind: Eric Dolphy

38 minute improv known as Free Jazz

classical musicians like Leonard Bernstein, Gunther
Schuller support

Schuller serve as an advisor for the project

jazz pianist John Lewis called it the only new thing to
happen in jazz since innovations in mid 40s of Dizzy
Gilespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk

Gilespie found music perplexing

won Guggenheim fellowship, MacArthus genius award,
Grammy lifetime achievement award, Pulitzer for music

similar to Jackson Pollock painting