abstract:Straight-ahead jazz is a jazz music style from the period between bebop and the 1960s styles of Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock. It is considered the lingua franca of jam sessions, and can usually be contrasted with smooth jazz.
The free-wheeling Mostly Other People Do the Killing, a quartet that jumps from postbop to funk to free jazz often within the span of a few bars worked the same stage as Rudresh Mahanthappa, whose album "Samdhi" (ACT) incorporates straight-ahead jazz, electronica and Indian percussion and modes.