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Originally Posted by fugazifan
whats the actual difference betwenn free jazzz and avant jazz?
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My understanding is that Avant Jazz is a broader term for any non-conventional jazz including fusion and classical music composition crossover material (such as Ornette's awesome Forms and Sounds album from the late '60s). Free Jazz is a term that gets used really widely, but to many people specifically implies improvisational based music that deliberately breaks with the traditions of Bebop and Modal Jazz.
Of course, as with any genre, you get this general vs. specific ways of looking at things that create endless arguments about what qualifies. Like how "Techno" music was specifically this particular branch of Chicago post-house electronic music, but then the term gets used as a catch all for every type of sequenced beat music ever created.