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Bandleader Stan Kenton coined "progressive jazz" for his complex, loud, and brassy approach to big band jazz that conveyed an association with art music. [1] Progressive music is music that attempts to expand existing stylistic boundaries associated with specific genres of music. [2]
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Progressive jazz is typified by an experimental, non-melodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Intense yet ironically relaxed tonal sonorities are the major characteristic of this jazz form, while th…
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Progressive jazz moved toward modernization in the 1950s and 1960s, tapping into more complex arrangements than what had been played by big bands. Another important departure from traditional jazz was the use of improvisaton.
Dec 20, 2023 · Shepp’s follow-up, Fire Music, is a landmark statement that underlined progressive jazz’s increasing bond with the Black Power movement’s activism and identity politics. The impressionistic ...
