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progressive jazz

noun

  1. an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Compare bop 1, cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of progressive jazz1

First recorded in 1945–50

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