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harmolodic

Last updated: Tue Oct 28 2025 22:32:56 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Harmolodic refers to a revolutionary approach to jazz improvisation developed in the 1970s that eliminates fixed harmonic hierarchies, allowing all instruments to function as equal melodic voices. The music features free-flowing interplay where traditional roles of rhythm, harmony, and melody dissolve into collective spontaneous composition. This creates a sound characterized by angular phrases, shifting tonalities, and democratic instrumental conversation that challenges conventional jazz structure.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
95		1960-06	Ornette Coleman	Change of the Century	jazz	avant-garde jazz # 24
71		1965	Albert Ayler Trio	Spiritual Unity	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 73
92		1966	Patty Waters	College Tour	harmolodic jazz new thing	new thing # 95
94		1967	Albert Ayler	In Greenwich Village	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 97
82		1969	Dave Burrell	Echo	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 86
53		1970	Jimmy Lyons	Other Afternoons	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 51
88		1971	Art Ensemble Of Chicago	A Jackson In Your House / Message To Our Folks	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 92
72		1972	Anthony Braxton	Donna Lee	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 74
91		1973	Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio	Pakistani Pomade	harmolodic jazz new thing	new thing # 94
35		1973	Charles Brackeen	Rhythm X	harmolodic
79		1973	Dewey Redman	The Ear Of The Behearer	harmolodic jazz
39		1975	Joe McPhee	Black Magic Man	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 29
84		1975	Muhal Richard Abrams	Afrisong	blues harmolodic jazz jazz piano new thing piano	new thing # 89
63		1976	Frank Lowe	The Flam	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 67
64		1976	Haazz & Company	Unlawful Noise	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 69
96		1976	Charlie Haden	Closeness Duets	harmolodic jazz jazz double bass	jazz double bass # 10
68		1977	Charlie Haden	The Golden Number	harmolodic jazz double bass	jazz double bass # 32
100		1977	Ornette Coleman	Dancing In Your Head	harmolodic jazz
98		1978	Ornette Coleman	Virgin Beauty	harmolodic jazz
8		1978-12-31	Marcello Melis	Free to Dance	harmolodic new thing
26		1979	Dewey Redman	Choices	harmolodic new thing
86		1979	James Blood Ulmer	Tales of Captain Black	fusion harmolodic
33		1980	Music Revelation Ensemble	No Wave	harmolodic
61		1980	James Blood Ulmer	Are You Glad To Be In America	blues fusion harmolodic jazz jazz fusion jazz guitar jazz-funk
67		1980	James Blood Ulmer	Are You Glad to Be in America?	blues fusion harmolodic jazz jazz fusion jazz guitar jazz-funk
2		1981	Anthony Braxton	Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions	harmolodic new thing
29		1983	Jamaaladeen Tacuma	Show Stopper	fusion harmolodic jazz
12		1984	Jamaaladeen Tacuma	Renaissance Man	harmolodic
37		1985	David Murray	Children	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 17
51		1985	Frank Lowe	Decision in Paradise	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 49
85		1986	Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman	Song X	harmolodic jazz
16		1987	Oliver Lake	Impala	harmolodic new thing
89		1987	Kronos Quartet	White Man Sleeps	classical harmolodic
57		1987-02	Ornette Coleman	In All Languages	avant-garde jazz harmolodic jazz
55		1989	John Zorn	Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman	jazz
97		1989	Don Cherry	Old And New Dreams	harmolodic
22		1990	Albert Ayler	Black Revolt	harmolodic new thing
43		1990	Ronald Shannon Jackson	Red Warrior	harmolodic
9		1990-06-25	The Jazz Composer's Orchestra	Communications	harmolodic new thing
13		1990-06-25	The Jazz Composer's Orchestra	Communication	harmolodic new thing
41		1991	Butch Morris	Dust to Dust	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 32
19		1991	Arthur Blythe	Hipmotism	harmolodic new thing
6		1992	Strata Institute	Transmigration	harmolodic new thing
66		1992-08-25	David S. Ware	Flight of I	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 71
31		1993	James Blood Ulmer	Harmolodic Guitar With Strings	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 7
49		1994	Cecil Taylor	Olu Iwa	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 43
14		1994	Mujician	Poem About the Hero	harmolodic new thing
87		1994-02-25	Marion Brown	Porto Novo	harmolodic jazz new thing	new thing # 91
45		1995	Dave Douglas	Constellations	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 37
65		1995	Henry Threadgill	Makin' a Move	avant-garde jazz flute harmolodic jazz modern jazz	modern jazz # 39
10		1996	Ellery Eskelin	One Great Day	harmolodic new thing
23		1996	Ellery Eskelin	The Sun Died	harmolodic new thing
27		1996	Jamaaladeen Tacuma	Dreamscape	harmolodic
99		1996-08-26	Derek Bailey	Mirakle	harmolodic
73		1997	AALY Trio & Ken Vandermark	Hidden in the Stomach	emd harmolodic new thing	emd # 39 new thing # 76
62		1997	Ornette Coleman	The Music Of Ornette Coleman: Something Else!!!	jazz
69		1997	Noël Akchoté	Lust Corner	harmolodic
44		1997-09-25	David S. Ware Quartet	Wisdom of Uncertainty	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 34
74		1998	Dave Douglas	Convergence	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 77
11		1998	Dewey Redman	In Willisau	harmolodic new thing
17		2000	Matthew Shipp Quartet	Pastoral Composure	harmolodic new thing
28		2000-10-17	Tony Malaby	Apparitions	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 2
24		2001	Misha Mengelberg Quartet	Four in One	harmolodic jazz new thing
76		2002	Anthony Braxton	Quartet (Dortmund) 1976	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 81
1		2002	Arthur Blythe	Focus	harmolodic new thing
38		2003	Grachan Moncur III	New Africa - One Morning I Woke Up Very Early	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 25
50		2003	Fred Anderson	Back at the Velvet Lounge	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 48
25		2003	Gerry Hemingway Quartet	Devils Paradise	contemporary jazz harmolodic new thing
52		2004	Big Satan	Souls Saved Hear	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 50
70		2005-06-08	Cecil Taylor	Solo	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 72
54		2006-07-25	Bridge 61	Journal	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 52
3		2007	The Nu Band	The Dope and The Ghost - Live in Vienna	harmolodic jazz new thing
47		2007-12	Steve Lehman Quartet	Manifold	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 39
30		2008	Schlippenbach Trio	Gold Is Where You Find It	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 5
42		2008-08	Anthony Braxton, William Parker & Milford Graves	Beyond Quantum		new thing # 33
90		2009-07-01	Chris Potter	Ultrahang	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 93
60		2010	Michael Gregory Jackson	Clarity	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 63
4		2010-03	Matthew Shipp	DNA	harmolodic jazz new thing
59		2011	Tim Berne	Insomnia	harmolodic jazz new thing	new thing # 60
56		2011-02-14	Matana Roberts	Live in London	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 55
93		2011-02	Peter Evans Quintet	Ghosts	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 96
21		2011-09	Tyshawn Sorey	Oblique - I	harmolodic new thing
18		2012	Cactus Truck	Brand New For China!	harmolodic new thing
34		2012-04	Steve Lehman Trio	Dialect Fluorescent	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 10
48		2013	Made To Break	Provoke	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 40
78		2013-01-04	Rudresh Mahanthappa	Gamak	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 84
80		2013-04-23	Craig Taborn Trio	Chants	harmolodic jazz jazz piano new thing	new thing # 85
58		2013-10	Tim Berne's Snakeoil	Shadow Man	contemporary jazz harmolodic new thing	new thing # 58
75		2014-01-22	Sam Rivers	A New Conception	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 79
32		2014-09-16	Anna Webber	Simple	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 9
5		2014-10-17	Schlippenbach Trio	First Recordings	harmolodic new thing
83		2015-03-04	Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth	Epicenter	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 87
15		2015-11-03	Nate Wooley Quintet	(Dance To) The Early Music	harmolodic jazz new thing
81		2016	Ornette Coleman	The Complete Science Fiction Sessions	jazz
77		2016-10-01	Peter Evans	Zebulon	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 82
36		2016-10	Taylor Ho Bynum	Enter the Plustet	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 15
20		2019-04-12	Anthony Braxton	Solo (Koln) 1978	harmolodic new thing
40		2022-06-11	Masayuki Takayanagi	Independence: Tread On Sure Ground	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 30
46			Burton Greene	Burton Greene Quartet	harmolodic new thing	new thing # 38
7			Cecil Taylor Quartet	Nailed	harmolodic new thing

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