| Free improvisation became known as a gender in | | | | recordings are the two songs played in 1949 by |
| 1960s, but then it developed progressively, and it | | | | pianist Lennie Tristano. Shelly Manne followed a |
| is difficult to recognize a firm point in time that | | | | similar model and made a recording of a song |
| the style in fact appeared. Free improvisation is | | | | "Abstract #1" in 1954. The transitional era of free |
| basis of the music itself, and music as the idea | | | | improvisation came into view in 1950s - 1960s |
| appeared as a product of improvisation, this style | | | | that fundamentally improvised from the choral |
| becomes the first of the people's musical | | | | idiom of symphony. Jimmy Giuffre's trio continued |
| performances. | | | | the tendency, they have created Free Fall taping |
| In classical music, such kind of music as free | | | | which was really different from the classical styles |
| improvisation came out fist in the works of Pierre | | | | of jazz. |
| Boulez, Henry Cowell, Morton Feldman, and they | | | | The idea of performances was that they were |
| not only allowed, but required musicians to | | | | made simply with no composition of a separate |
| improvise. Another crucial point in the times past | | | | pre-defined theme. Another organization, the |
| of free improvisation in Europe is the | | | | Spontaneous Music Ensemble, appeared in 1960s. |
| development of Musica Electronica Viva in Rome | | | | It began as jazz, but steadily pushed the music to |
| in 1966. It cannot be called a single brand; as an | | | | the open domain. The boundary between jazz and |
| alternative is it a group based on experimental | | | | free improvisation almost absolutely disappeared |
| jazz and free improvisation. In 1970s, there | | | | with the formation of the association for creative |
| existed three separate bands that went after the | | | | musicians in Chicago in 1965. The earliest Elektra |
| name - in Paris, New York, and Rome. | | | | recordings of free improvisation in Europe were |
| Many musicians consider free improvisation is to | | | | originated in 1966 by the British group that |
| be the development of jazz, the first live | | | | included five talented musicians. |