{"id":799,"date":"2012-02-10T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=799"},"modified":"2012-02-10T12:45:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:45:11","slug":"goin-on-about-free-jazz-and-the-avant-garde-wplaylists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2012\/02\/goin-on-about-free-jazz-and-the-avant-garde-wplaylists.html","title":{"rendered":"Goin’ on about “free jazz” and “the avant-garde”, w\/playlists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jose Reyes of the online listening station\u00c2\u00a0Jazz Con Class<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0has posted \u00c2\u00a0a Q&A with me about “free jazz” and “the avant-garde” — which he proposes as two distinct subgenres of jazz, tied to the 1960s.\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

John Coltrane meets Don Cherry in "The Avant-Garde"<\/p><\/div>\n

New things — innovations — thinking outside the box — breaks from conventions and the continuum of progress (evolution) — these issues are regards jazz, among other art forms, has long fascinated me. It’s the topic of my book Miles Ornette Cecil – Jazz Beyond Jazz<\/a><\/em> and the inspiration of this blog. So I spin out more of my pov about these matters in response to Jose’s questions, and I hope you’ll enjoy them while listening to the playlists he’s set up — but comment on the Q&A discussion below, or on my Facebook post of this blog posting.<\/p>\n

howardmandel.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Subscribe by Email or RSS<\/a><\/p>\n

All JBJ posts <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jose Reyes of the online listening station\u00c2\u00a0Jazz Con Class\u00c2\u00a0has posted \u00c2\u00a0a Q&A with me about “free jazz” and “the avant-garde” — which he proposes as two distinct subgenres of jazz, tied to the 1960s.\u00c2\u00a0 New things — innovations — thinking outside the box — breaks from conventions and the continuum of progress (evolution) — these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/the-avant-garde.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-cT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1157,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2012\/12\/jayne-cortez-poet-activist-muse-of-the-avant-garde-dies-age-76.html","url_meta":{"origin":799,"position":0},"title":"Jayne Cortez — poet, activist, muse of the avant garde — dies, age 76","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"December 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Jayne Cortez, a no-nonsense poet who\u00c2\u00a0often declaimed her incisive lines of vivid imagery tying fierce social criticism to imperatives of personal responsibility with backing by her band the Firespitters,\u00c2\u00a0died Dec. 28 at age 76 (according to NYT obit, age 78). Her deep appreciation of American blues and jazz was another\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "main"","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"jayne","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jayne.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":227,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/08\/best_review_ever_of_miles_orne.html","url_meta":{"origin":799,"position":1},"title":"best review ever of Miles Ornette Cecil — Jazz Beyond Jazz","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"August 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm humbled by writer-poet-performance artist\u00c2\u00a0Kirpal Gordon's appreciation of and insight into my book on the avant garde through the models of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, in the just-posted NOLA issue of Big Bridge magazine. He's captured my intent and says I accomplished what I meant to. See\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "main"","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":78,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2008\/02\/rivers_win_bad_for_jazz.html","url_meta":{"origin":799,"position":2},"title":"Rivers’ win: Bad for jazz?","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"February 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Listeners who like their music strong, fresh, mysterious, challenging might share pride in pianist Herbie Hancock's Grammy Award for River: The Joni Letters -- but some snipe it celebrates moderation more than creativity. What's your take? I voted \"Yea!\" back last October when River was released, writing \"The music is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "main"","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":109,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2008\/07\/avantgarde_alert_brooklyn.html","url_meta":{"origin":799,"position":3},"title":"Odd noise music alert, Brooklyn","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"July 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A concert sponsored by The Onion -- so expect to be amused, Wednesday July 30, starting at 6:30 pm, free in a tent by the Brooklyn waterfront:\u00c2\u00a0John Zorn's \"Cobra\" -- an intricate musical game performed best by quick-witted improvisers with a handle of tactics governing the Avalon Hill board wargames\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"avant garde concert\"","block_context":{"text":"avant garde concert","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/tag\/avant-garde-concert"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2007\/07\/the_makers_of_jazz_beyond_jazz.html","url_meta":{"origin":799,"position":4},"title":"The Makers of Jazz Beyond Jazz","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"July 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the course of three decades, I've been privileged to get behind the scenes and meet heroic creators of jazz as well as up-and-comers, innovators and exemplars of many other genres. Please enjoy these archival interviews and articles. William Parker, DownBeat, July 1998 Maria Schneider DownBeat, July 2007 Sonny Rollins\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "interviews"","block_context":{"text":"interviews","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/interviews"},"img":{"alt_text":"audio_icon.gif","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/audio_icon.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1140,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2012\/12\/my-suggestion-for-2014-nea-jazz-master-reggie-workman.html","url_meta":{"origin":799,"position":5},"title":"My suggestion for 2014 NEA Jazz Master: Reggie Workman","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"December 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Things may be somewhat up-for-grabs at the National Endowment for the Arts, with chair Rocco Landesman \u00c2\u00a0stepping down at year end (NEA Senior Deputy Chairman Joan Shigekawa will serve as the agency's acting head), but assuming the show will go on\u00c2\u00a0I urge\u00c2\u00a0Reggie Workman (b. 1937, Philadelphia) receive a 2014 NEA\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "main"","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"bassist Reggie Workman","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/reggie-workman1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}