Avant-garde jazz is a style of jazz that originated in the 1950s, rejecting the conventions of bebop and post-bop (other jazz styles). This style aimed to further blur the lines between written and improvised music. This movement towards a more spontaneous music came as a reaction to commercialism and European classical musical ideals. […]
THE BEGINNING Northern Soul was a musical, fashion, and dance movement that began in Northern England around 1968 and lasted until the mid-to-late 1970s. Although short-lived, it set the stage for many of Britain’s musical movements in the coming decades and inspired a generation of Northern English kids. The movement emerged from the 1960s […]
