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  • I find that I generally can't do anything else while listening to free jazz. I've got a few free jazz albums like Ascension, and though I enjoy listening to them I actually listen less frequently than to some other albums I own, because it demands so much of my concentration. I'm either all listening to it, or being distracted by it. There's too much going on just to let your brain semi-passively pick out elements of the music.

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  • I wanna see a cover!

  • alright, now who's gonna transcribe this? (trollface)

  • am i the only one scared by the music here?

    

  • I remember the first time some "musical purist" told me what I was listening to wasn't even music. I thought, hell it must be good!

  • TAX EXEMPTION!!

  • @SMPsis I have yet to acquire a taste for free form jazz.

  • @SMPsis What?

  • Great stuff, might sound like a blend or fusion between constipated brass and sick cattle to some but I love it, great musical debate, thanks for the posting ;)

  • very psychedelic ^^

  • Plug in headphones, listen to one at a time. Still atonal, far more listenable!

  • I love this music. I feel as though it is abstract expressionism for the ears: it has no objective and no central emotional theme.

  • hm.. *Dunno what to think this is horrible to my ears*

  • why is patrick in the sidebar?

  • i play trombone and sometimes i go to a workshop with teens. seven minutes before we start to play it sounds like THAT!!

  • @MsJohanna95 those kids can burn then. People seem to think this kind of music lacks structure and direction. While it's much freeer than most music they are still using scales, playing in time, etc.They just express themselves without worrying if they're playing the right changes or if what their doing is the right style. Just listening and responding.Ornette's bands had so much more communication than most non-free bands do. Granted theres about 5 conversations going on this track

  • @mattpolofka I don´t think these kids should burn. there are some really musicians in this circle. some of them have a so called "absolutes Gehör" (i´m german, i don´t know the english word...) I mean they are great musicians. This was the first link i had to these music, i´m sorry. I don´t want to insult people who like that kind of music. I can´t identify with this music, jazz yes but not that kind. You see i´ve heard some more beautifully music songs but that´s only my opinion...

  • This isn't even all that messy, I don't get it. This is VERY enjoyable and easy listening. But there are some unlistenable free jazz tracks, this isn't one of them.

  • Free Jazz is just that. Jazz that is set free... free of form, structure, time signatures, etc.

    It's a pure chaos of cool.

  • Oh God...Jazz is my favorite genre of music but this is kinda scary.

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  • discover new forms through thedreconstruction of old forms

    it does not work for everyone

  • its not really about any musical structure its more about the mood the disorganization gives off

  • no overt words, no explicit order but the simple honest mud bath at the shore of consciousness

  • This is the first time I listened to free form jazz and to be honest, I don't see why people hate it. I do get why most must take time to get used to this but I just imagine myself walking down a road lined with jazz musicians and hear the overlapping of different rhythms and tunes. I actually like it.

  • This is very easy to follow now. Later Ornette is not. These were fine musicians. Still not my favorite form of jazz, it inspired some great musicians and entered the mainstream.

  • :D cmon people just don't listen to this if you can not enjoy it :) leave the joy to those who appreciate free jazz

  • All the instruments are quite obviously doing their own thing with very little coordination or synchronization, but I like trying to listen to the bassline that sort of gets drowned out by the others at times.

  • This is awful

  • sweet

  • they were giving the middle finger to society's boundaries at the time (1960's) by giving the middle finger to music's boundaries. It's expressionism stemmed from their own political ideals and beliefs. It also called "free" jazz for a reason...

  • ...what the fuck?

  • who let the hen go out.....XD....

  • Honestly this isn't so bad. Really its kinda peaceful. Its like musical static.

  • pure magic. I love it!

  • Im a musician, and to me, this sounds like a jazz band warming up before a show. Everyone is doing there own little improv, whether it fits or not. Im not hearing a consistent beat/tempo that any musician is following.... I DONT GET IT!!!

  • @minxkitty8 Thats the point, free jazz by its very definition a middle finger to musical theroy, with no chords no tempo and very little feel, its a throw back the origins of music with tribal dances adn pure improv. That being said I could only listen to two minutes of it before I went back to trombone shortty and duke Ellington. :P

  • @minxkitty8

    Neither do I, but I think you might be on to something: Maybe this style arose when a few people thought "hey, sounds kinda awesome when we warm up, even though it doesn't make sense lol", and then decided to make something of it :D

    Just like, you know, this stuff might've been inspired by someone banging on the piano... and the listener thinking "hey, this sounds kinda cool" ;)

    watch?v=PeXy1-UWBS8

  • This is real art!!

  • @KingOfAirguitar I tend to agree!!

  • dam it sounds as if someone is raping a poor bastard in a music shop...

  • @Mianzz Start by listening to actual jazz.

  • @TheWallGuitar You sir have won the best response award for 2011!

  • ah this is so amazing!

  • This is more like art than music... Or music is a form of art... I dunno.. Pardon me, I got no education in music whatsoever. But I am interested to learn how to appreciate different forms of music from classical to blues to jazz.. Any advice?

  • @Mianzz start listening to Anal Cunt and after that you are able to appreciate anything

  • I do love how people use free form jazz as a means to reassure themselves they're sophisticated and intelligent.

    On the flip side, I'm not among them. This confuses the hell out of me.

  • @dandriko71 i have 12 years of music education. i go to secondary school of music. i absolutely love jazz.

    i still dont understand this shit.

  • well.... it's nothing to do....

  • @DruggedChicken I have never had musical education and i love this shit. On a sidenote, i'm classified as highly-intelligent.

  • @EpicTomato highly intelligent individuals shouldn't feel the need to announce to the petty world of you tube that they possess a "higher" then average IQ(average IQ is decreasing btw) . Doing so completely nullifies ones intelligence.

    to translate. this is me, being a smart-ass, calling you a dumb-ass.

    while still maintaining my troll

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  • only textures , feelings .. its like the nature , human nature .. with 12 years you think that you know who are you ? really . stop your mouth and mind .. LISTEN without labels

  • @powofgroove i didnt say im 12, i said i have 12 years of music education...

  • @DruggedChicken Just goes to prove you need to DROP OUT!!

  • @DruggedChicken yeah when i started listening to more avantgarde stuff i was like wtf am i hearing, but by listening to hardcore punk , metal, and noise rock (later in life), i realized that classical and modal jazz follow a strict guideline for what notes should be played when, to me the genius to avantgarde/free jazz music is finding those in-between notes and combining then with other notes to form a kind of music that nobody has ever heard before. in a nutshell

  • @DruggedChicken: Well, that was the general conclusion of most of the eras other Jazz musicians, not to mention the public at large. Audience interest was small and growing smaller and by the '70s the Free Jazz cats in New York were largely playing for each other. As the public came to believe that this was now Jazz they abandoned the art form in droves and it has taken years to rebuild, but the audience is still small compared to what it once was.

  • @dandriko71 Holy fuck, that's one of the most obnoxious elitist posts i've ever read.

  • @dandriko71 I always found that one of the great things about music is that it bypasses your intellect. Whether you have education or not you can like all kinds of music.I like this music, but you don't need a high education to like it. Anyone can.

  • @dandriko71 agree with u here, i too hav incredibility high iq so i understaind dis musik very well iven headbeng tu dis... baht i don't care if those avereige ppl still listening to taht stupit justin bieber and classikal musik, ppl will listen to whatever thei like depends on there mood, culture and intlelectuaillty.. i'm sure also that my speilling and grammer will annoi arverage peepell becose it's sum steps ahead of the basics.. and actueilly not so abstracht.

  • @dandriko71 No, it requires a taste of this kind of music to enjoy this kind of music, imbecile. Simple enough.

  • Everybody ho catches an instrument for the first time can play like this. Excuse me but if there is some musician here will nows.

  • painting's name??

  • if you have nothing to feel but bored, then free jazz will sounds good.

  • @AlternativeBT it never sounds good.

    You know the face you make when something really hurts?

    Yeah I have that with every note here.

  • @TheWallGuitar hehe, I mean maybe people who get really bored with "good music" (that acually have emotion to convey in those music) will enjoy this. This is simply rebellion to music theory, whereas music thoery exist to make it easier for creating good music. It's okay with experiment as long as the purpose is making good music, not to confuse pepole, but maybe some musician just don't care, that's why free jazz and contemporary music exist.

  • @AlternativeBT Yeah but music theory is somewhat based on what sounds good.

    But I got to say, this sounds better then Ornette's Dancing in your head.

    What a mess is that!

  • @TheWallGuitar haha, yeah i check it, the intro is pretty good though. But let me be honest, after listening to it over and over, it's not that bad =D.And actually if you try to search the notes, it train your feel. So listen to it and try to play it accurately is very challenging, but creating and improvising into it is not challenging at all. However I will never buy it!

  • @AlternativeBT I literally laughed when he picked up the violin XD.

  • we must give players who can not read music and know how to get sound out of an instrument also a chanche to play together and have fun and what nobody understands is art .I do it al the time.

  • @Hortonhearsawho1994 That's like asking why somebody would keep a diary/journal if they never intended for another person to read it. They recorded it for themselves and like-minded individuals who would understand and appreciate what they were trying to do. And nobody's forcing you or anyone else to listen to it.

  • If free jazz is bad music, then England never wins a football world cup

  • You have to let this music take you wherever it goes, and no, I don't take drugs.

  • it´s art... just another way of expressing your self... 

  • MN TNX!!!!

  • It's angular, baby....

  • I love this kind of music. Sure, its crap, but it's just nice to listen to it all being screwed up.

  • if you are high its perfect

  • I just don't unterstand this.

  • Patrick told me to acquire a taste for this.

  • Maybe I should play this backwards.

  • I've studied music and especially Jazz, it mainly consists of a lot of improvisation and, hene the name free Jazz. You don't like this song, go back to school.

  • I rate this piece of music at the very top of free jazz. Jazz taught me a long time ago 55 years ago in fact to stop thinking and listen, that all anyone has to do to get the benifit of Jazz, free or otherwise.

  • i really tried to understand the music and maybe find a real "sense" in it. i swear! But it seems im not ready for this :(

  • This is honestly a waste of talent, time, money, record space, wood for the instruments, and basically everything else that has to do with being able to play music.

  • @Bassmastajazzyj also a waste of weed. Lots, and LOTS of weed.

  • I enjoy lots of jazz music, and really music of almost any genre, but this is dreadful... There is no melody, there is nothing memorable about it. It sounds like the warm up before grade 7 band practice. Nothing musical about it.

  • @Hortonhearsawho1994 That's really the point. The free jazz movement was against what jazz and music in general had become between the '50's and the 70's. Free jazz musicians play this way because they are expressing themselves, and are doing it for themselves, not an audience. 

  • @PrinceRufus2 But why record music you have written for yourself, if you never intend to have an audience?

    I understand what you are saying though, they were simply the hipsters of the 50's lol

  • @Hortonhearsawho1994

    A) Hipster is a Jazz term, originated in the 30s and 40s. It was someone who followed the Jazz Scene, and extended to some of the more image conscious musicians themselves.

    B) These Bop era Hipsters actually cared a great deal about music. The Hipster of today is defined by apathy, and knowledge fro the sake of elitism. This is not the same as knowledge for the sake of knowledge, or music for the sake of music.

    C) These Free musicians would have died for their beliefs.

  • This sounds kind of pretentious. Like those artwork that has no meaning to it, but honestly the music kind of sound like the inside of my head sometimes. So I'm torn: I don't know if I hate it or love it.

  • Hip hip hurra, jetzt hab ich Ohrenkrebs........

  • Now I have acquired taste for free form jazz.

  • I like most jazz, but I just can´t get into this. Maybe some day in the future, however I doubt it.

  • oh, the things you can do with 12 notes...

  • Free jazz is music. Lobsters are crustaceans. I just wanted to prove that I could spell crustacean. Because it's fun to say, just as fun as listening to adults bicker about them. By the way did anyone consider the poor lobster's feelings?

    -Yours in growing fins

    Rev. Philip Di Tommaso, not the person on this account

  • Why not just listen to the tune.

  • funny how free jazz seams weirder than Mathcore sometimes !!!!

  • I would just say that, like any other art form, Jazz and further more music isn't created for one purpose only. I see free form Jazz as exploration. It's not generally for the listening public as such but to see what happens given certain parameters. It's one aspect of Jazz exaggerated, namely the improvised element. If we didn't experiment how could we grow?We would all be still listening to gregorian chants if we didn't have curiosity. 200 years ago Frank Sinatra would have sounded like this.

  • I just realised, it's now been 50 years since the release of Free Jazz. What a milestone!

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  • step underwater into a lobsters turf, and he will beat the shit out of you.

  • 47 people did NOT acquire a taste for Freeform Jazz.

  • there are nobody playing but heroin

  • I come to free form jazz page...and read about lobster.

  • The purest form of expression. My soul is crying!

  • My Neighbors are going LOVE this..hehehehe

  • I love this, my friend doesn't- we all have different taste and he respects me for liking it. Just shut up and listen if you like it, if you don't then listen to what you prefer.

  • well. maybe i don't get it, but it doesn't sound like music to me... probably there were just 20 stoners, who were given instruments and told to start playing.

  • Awesomely wild!!

  • im not really into this paricular sound, has anybody heard of the band yog sothoth from france? know where i can find more like them

  • I really don't like jazz in general, but this is pretty dope

  • I found this extremely hard to masturbate to.

  • This kind of meandering clearly emphasizes exactly why I have had a hard time getting into jazz. It's like taking bad jazz to its logical extreme. I certainly hope these people were playing in separate rooms when they recorded their parts, because if not, they seriously need hearing aides.

  • This is amazing ;_; never heard such astral art inducing an eternal orgasm

  • it takes a lot of work to sound this bad! :) lol

  • I love it, I love it, I love it:) Thank you very much anyone who upload it here. That's great:)

  • great music, but i admit that it is hard to listen to.

  • Im here to acquire a taste of Free Form Jazz.

  • Listened to the CD in silence not so long ago. Far from outrageous, it struck me as roots music. Sure, the musicians occasionally loose impetus within the group improvisations, but they also have moments when they soar individually and together. Remember that Ornette Coleman was working his ideas out in the performance, not on paper. It was an adventure. As far outside as Free Jazz is, you can hear New Orleans ensembles and the blues through it and in it.

  • Free form jazz is the very embodiment of jazz. The most spontaneous collaboration of music. The instruments talk, each telling their own story. It's a fray of smooth rhythm and bass. It captures the very essence of jazz. it's the free spirit of music. It has soul, pizazz, and attitude.

    -Sean Williams, singer, guitarist, and actor

  • bu ne amına koyuyum lan sago haklıymış

  • people who dislike this are squares.

  • It's hilarious how many pretentious assholes this music attracts...don't get me wrong though, this shit rules.

  • so bad its good

  • If Free Jazz is bad music, then Picasso couldn't draw proper faces.

  • @freakasoit No. Free Jazz is bad music. Picasso is abstract. He had something in mind when he drew stuff. This is pure noise.

  • @TrickyEmu Agreed! If someone locked me into a closet and I had to listen to this I may contemplate suicide. Miles Davis said he had some loose screws!

  • @TrickyEmu Funny, most people reckon this as abstract music while Picasso hasn't made a single abstract work.

  • @ChrisDulk was about to say that.

    thank you for preceding me!

  • @TrickyEmu this is abstract music. Not all people can appriciate it, just like not all people like Picasso's paintings.

  • @freakasoit If free jazz is bad music, then that asshole chef who gave me a burned steak with five dog turds on it at carrabba's deserved the asskicking.

  • @freakasoit Well, Picasso's art sucked, so yeah.

  • @Arglactable Just like many people will say that Da Vinci's art was bad. People shouldn't let their personal tastes enter their statements.

  • @IHasTheRabies4Yaoi Uhhh. Why? No statement concerning the quality of art is objective. And Da Vinci's art is overrated anyway, his scientific contributions are far more interesting.

  • Preforming near you: "The National autistic pop orchestra."

    tooting yer favourite tunes: "Smooth Seizure", "Jazz-jizz-junk", "In an epileptic mood" and "Redrum redrum"

  • or their playing a standard in a bus tumbling down a steep hill.

    Maybe this is to high-brow for me, or perhaps my eyebrows should touch for this.

  • 1ST YOU MUST ACQUIRE A TASTE FOR, FREE FORM JAZZ

  • good or not, hilarious

  • haha this is hilarious

  • Nope, pretty much sounds like shit to me. Like, this kind of stuff, is it hard to make? It really sounds like a high school band member could some up with this kind of dissonant material where it hardly holds any melody. Either a lot of drugs must be taken to tolerate this or one must be deaf. Oh well. I'll let you guys enjoy this :D

  • I liked the part where they played random tones.

  • @Ihatecoldnnnirror Theres no such part, maybe you confused it with Bullet for my Valentine or some other pop band.

  • @tehpeasant Dude, First of all BfmV is not a frickin pop band. Next thing is, I know that free Jazz isn't about playing random notes. Free Jazz is art and good Free Jazz artists do exactly know what they are doing. I was just making a joke.

  • lol this is crazy awesome. love it when musicians make music that pisses people off (like half those commenting below).  ballsy stufff

  • hmm may be useful music hehe, would be cool on acid

  • Complex, like you on your insides. Beautiful, like you on your outsides. Chaotic, like we all are, throughout.

  • I love free jazz, it's a psychedelic experience for sure

  • @TheNeanderthaller the original psychedelic music

  • I like it. But I can't really say why

  • Ignore the a#@holes who know nothing of great music. Brilliant. Listened to this album in my teens. Only one in H.S. The beautifully dynamic chemistry and fantastically complex artistry produced by Black consciousness, amazes and deeply intimidates the Beast. Display of intellectual bravado tears at the Monster. THEY CANNOT STOP THE MUSIC! WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT! FACE IT! Black just might have a brain, after all.

  • u mad?

  • The problem is that there are people who actually love this music, like me, and then you have the majority who doesn't. The latter often thinks the other group doesn't actually enjoy the music and is tricked into liking it, like the moron talking about the lobster. Face it, there are people who actually love how it sounds, it's not because you don't appreciate it that no-one can. I am not trying to be all intellectual when I listen to dissonant music. I just like it.

  • @1000Eyes0016 while i understand the lobster boys attempt at metaphor i dont understand his seemingly un provoked, ill concieved vitriol, im not saying he is an arse, meerly that he may have arrived at such dull conclusions by using this part of his anatomy to conduct most of his contemplations. music is like food, that much at least (and indeed, most) is true in lobster boys theory, but does anybody have the right to pontificate over which food others enjoy? if you dont like it dont eat it.

  • @1000Eyes0016 Well, I guess that radio and tv airplay is just invaded by free jazz, so that people who don't like it just can't escape from listening... Lucky you.

  • @1000Eyes0016 exactly. there are also those who genuinely enjoy lobster. perhaps critics of free jazz fans are suffering from the same intellectual insecurity they project. they also seem to mislabel their own highly subjective views as an honest report of reality, mistaking sincerely held opinions for truth.

  • well people who hear anything of awesome in this song are either idiots or crazy(not meant as an insult) musicians ; ) I don't like it, but hey, why not?

  • Is this Muic?? Thats awful!!!!!!!!

  • lol you guys are all assholes

  • @aderandie2 why ?

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  • This is perfect to play at high volume in a stressful office.

  • Uhhhhhh....