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Swing offered individual musicians a chance to improvise melodic, thematic solos
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Bop soloists engaged in harmonic improvisation, often avoiding the melody altogether after the first chorus.
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Referred to as "Avante Garde", although true Free Jazz soloists shed even the ensemble arrangement structure, giving for a totally "free" impulse experience to the music.
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Mixture of Jazz improvisation with the energy and new rhythms of Rock and World music
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Evolving from Fusion, but leaving behind the energetic solos and dynamic crescendos