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Jazz 101 Style
Progressive
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"Progressive jazz" is a definition that has been employed in a variety of contexts
over the years, sometimes resulting in confusion with such disparate genres as bebop and
free jazz. In the late 1940s, the term became widely associated with the innovations in the
jazz orchestral tradition promulgated by the large band of Stan Kenton, which often featured
experimental charts by arranger Pete Rugulo that were notable for their complex
textures and dissonant harmonies. The big band of Boyd Raeburn also explored similar
territory. In many ways, these efforts foreshadowed the coming of third-stream music.
By the late 1950s, progressive jazz was often used as a synonym for "modern jazz,"
an umbrella title for various bop and post-bop stylistic advances, which later
included the modal style of improvisation based on scales instead of chords
pioneered by Miles Davis, John Coltrane and others.
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Traditional
