large following, initially by young musicians and college students. Stan Getz popularized this music, and it became an outgrowth of cool jazz. It uses Latin Bossa Nova music mixed with jazz improvisation. Probably the most recognized example, "The Girl from Ipanema," is Bossa Nova (Getz plays the saxophone solo). Although the bossa nova movement only lasted about six years (195863), it contributed a number of songs to the standard jazz repertoire. Jobim Trio: Free Jazz and Avante Garde "freed" up the soloist to play anything). The solo became the melody and the players played off of musical ideas from each other. This sometimes comes off as sounding dissonant, especially when multiple people play their own piece simultaneously. The music sometimes had something of a frenzied edge to it. Although he mastered hard bop and modal jazz, John Coltrane evolved into this music during the last years of his life and became the musical figurehead who lent credibility to it (and the music's popularity basically died with him). The universally recognized father of this genre is Ornette Coleman (1930). |