Sentence examples for modal jazz from inspiring English sources
noun
A genre of jazz that uses chord progressions as a harmonic framework.
Kind of Blue is representative of modal jazz - i.e., based entirely on modality in contrast to Davis's earlier work with the hard bop style of jazz and its complex chord progression and improvisation.
Describes modal jazz, which never really caught on..
Oh Freedom: George Russell, John Coltrane, and Modal Jazz.
The finale, "The Day of Pentecost," set gospel shouts alongside volcanic modal jazz.
Davis created modal jazz and fusion, and he helped transform bebop.
What he was playing was a modal jazz arrangement of "Sakura," the Japanese folk song.
The bustling "Three Dances" took McCoy Tyner's roiling modal jazz style through shifting meters and horn-section shouts.
Coleman and others had continued to popularize so-called free jazz, a confrontational, instinctive response to bebop and modal jazz.
The dance-music styles that had dominated jazz in the prewar years gave way to freer, more experimental forms like be-bop and modal jazz.
In the 1950s Russell's LCCOTO began to influence Miles Davis, Coltrane, and other modal-jazz pioneers.
Sure, there may be few modal-jazz records more famous than "A Love Supreme" or "My Favorite Things," few records more representative of free-jazz than "Ascension" or "Interstellar Space".
