FREE JAZZ (jan 16, 1949 – nov 4, 1970)

Description:

- Ornette Coleman:
- 1930 - 2015
- known for his use of a plastic saxophone
- "leader" of the free jazz movement with unorthodox use of harmony, chord progressions, raw tone, and multiphonics
- Pulitzer Prize winner

- John Coltrane:
- 1926 - 1967
- one of the most influential and adventurous saxophonists in the 1950s and '60s
- put forth the belief that music has the power to heal (religious intensity through modal jazz)

- Pharoah Sanders:
- 1940 - present
- before he met fellow jazz artist Sun Ra, he was impoverished and homeless
- used many types of special effects, as well as experimenting with vairous Middle Eastern, African, and Asian styles