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Free Jazz

Genre family: Jazz
2000s recordings: 3

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Meet Free Jazz

Free Jazz is a branch of the Jazz family, with its own performance and recording traditions.

The clearest way to understand Free Jazz is to hear how its rhythm, timbre and performance language change across artists and recordings.

Begin with Gato Barbieri, The Kühn Brothers & The Mad Rockers and Abdullah Ibrahim.

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Parent genreJazz

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2000s starting recordings

3 recordings

01Eighty First Street2002 · Free Jazz · free jazzOpen in new tab 02Misty Purple2003 · Free Jazz · free jazzOpen in new tab 03Latino America2009 · Free Jazz · free jazzOpen in new tab

KEY ARTISTS

2000s artists

Artist·Latin Jazz

Gato Barbieri

Artist·Free Jazz

The Kühn Brothers & The Mad Rockers

Artist·Free Jazz

Abdullah Ibrahim

ESSENTIAL ALBUMS

2000s albums

Album·2002

Hamba Khale

Album·2003

Psychedelic Jazz - 16 Smoking Tunes

Album·2009

Chapter Two: Hasta Siempre

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main styleGato BarbieriFree Jazz and Gato Barbieri share an artist-to-genre connection.
main styleThe Kühn Brothers & The Mad RockersFree Jazz and The Kühn Brothers & The Mad Rockers share an artist-to-genre connection.
main styleAbdullah IbrahimFree Jazz and Abdullah Ibrahim share an artist-to-genre connection.
belongs toJazzFree Jazz is a subgenre of Jazz.
genreLatino AmericaLatino America is connected with Free Jazz.
genreMisty PurpleMisty Purple is connected with Free Jazz.
genreEighty First StreetEighty First Street is connected with Free Jazz.

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