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free jazz

music genre
Intangible music_genre Q211781
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Summary

free jazz is a music genre[1]. It draws 1,713 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #255 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • free jazz's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • free jazz is a type of avant-garde jazz[4].
  • free jazz's country of origin is recorded as United States[5].
  • free jazz's country of origin is recorded as Europe[6].
  • 1960 marks the founding of free jazz[7].
  • free jazz's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Free jazz[8].
  • free jazz's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[9].

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Definition and Type

free jazz's instance of is recorded as music genre[3]. It is a type of avant-garde jazz[4].

Origins

1960 marks the founding of free jazz[7].

Why It Matters

free jazz draws 1,713 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #255 of 1,946).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Rate Your Music. rateyourmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Rate Your Music. rateyourmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Pere prlpz · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gran enciclopèdia catalana id → free-jazz
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'eu',
    Sitelink count → 43
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Gran enciclopèdia catalana id: free-jazz, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/289934|batch #289934]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → —
    Inception → —
    Country of origin → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 14255, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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