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For the Ornette Coleman album see Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz composers varied widely the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop hard bop and modal jazz which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s.

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derivative
Loft jazz, Experimental rock
instrument
Double bass, Drum kit, Guitar, Piano, Saxophone, Trombone, Trumpet
music fusion genre
Progressive rock
stylistic origin
Jazz, Experimental music

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