Beginning with the first truly mature and well-defined style of the swing era in the twenties, passing through the bebop style of the forties, the fifties’ modal jazz of Miles Davis, the avantgarde sounds of the post-bop era and of course the absolute liberation from any formal or musical paradigm in the free jazz style of the sixties.
Over the course of the past century, Jazz music has gone through a massive number of deep transformations to its musical surface. Beginning with the first truly mature and well-defined style of the swing era in the twenties, passing through the bebop style of the forties, the fifties’ modal jazz of Miles Davis, the avantgarde sounds of the post-bop era and of course the absolute liberation from any formal or musical paradigm in the free jazz style of the sixties.