{
  "name": "Avant-Garde Jazz",
  "description": "Combines traditional or mainstream Jazz stylings with non-traditional techniques of avant-garde art music by experimenting with characteristics such as rhythm, harmony, structure, melody, and instrumentation.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/avant-garde-jazz/",
  "parent": "Jazz",
  "level": "sub",
  "children_count": 2,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Experimental Big Band",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/experimental-big-band/",
      "description": "Dispensing with traditional Jazz structures and Swing sounds, instead performing Avant-Garde Jazz and pushing the boundaries of the medium.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Avant-Garde Jazz"
    },
    {
      "name": "Free Jazz",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/free-jazz/",
      "description": "Attempts to break free from the conventions and patterns of earlier Jazz subgenres through the use of elements such as dissonance, atonality, and free-flowing rhythmic structures.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Avant-Garde Jazz"
    }
  ]
}