John Lewis (pianist in the Modern Jazz Quartet) championed free jazz because he felt that

a. it was the first really new thing to happen in jazz since Charlie Parker
b. jazz had become too predictable and formulaic
c. jazz should follow art music into atonality and aleatoricism
d. traditional jazz was no longer commercially viable


a

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