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Free Jazz
- Genre family
- Jazz
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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 Motorpsycho, Han Bennink and The Dave Pike Set.
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Parent genreJazz
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01Balls1970 · Free Jazz · free jazzOpen in new tab 02Misty Purple2003 · Free Jazz · free jazzOpen in new tab 03Somewhat, Somewhere, Somehow2020 · Free Jazz · free jazzOpen in new tab 04Olemanns kornett2026 · Free Jazz · free jazzOpen in new tab 05The Wheel2026 · Free Jazz · free jazzOpen in new tab 06Limbo2026 · Free Jazz · free jazzOpen in new tab
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