"Broadway Blues" is a jazz/blues composition, composed by

Ornette Coleman Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Ja ...

. It first appeared on his 1968 album ''

New York Is Now! __NOTOC__ ''New York Is Now!'' is an album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman released on the Blue Note Records, Blue Note label in 1968.

''. It was composed in the key of E-flat major. "Broadway Blues" has been cited as a key work in the "

Free Jazz Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventi ...

" movement which began in the 1960s, a "vehicle" of Coleman's that "offered a freer approach to improvisation than had been used in earlier jazz styles". While the song title features the term blues prominently, the song itself does not employ the twelve-bar chord progression utilized in most

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spiritual (music), spirituals, work songs, field hollers, Ring shout, shouts, cha ...

music.

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