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The Spontaneous Music Ensemble was formed by John Stevens and Trevor Watts in the mid-1960s and included, at various times, influential players such as Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Roger Smith, and John Butcher.

As with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians ( AACM ), many of these players began in jazz, but gradually pushed the music into a zone of abstraction and relative quietude.

The British record label Emanem has documented much music in this vein.