Question

compare the student text with the source.
source: max fisher, \jazz legend ornette coleman has died. these 4 songs show why he mattered.\ published on vox, jun. 2015.
free jazz is highly experimental even for jazz, chaotic and often dissonant by design, rejecting traditional boundaries of tonality and rhythm. it can come across as more art movement than musical style, and thus as opaque and self - serious.
student text:
free jazz presents a challenge to traditional jazz that some audiences may find pretentious or obtuse because it tends to be avant - garde and formless, eschewing structure in favor of experimentation.
is the student text plagiarized?
no, it is not plagiarized.
yes, because it fails to cite the source.
yes, because it fails to use quotation marks and fails to cite the source.

Explanation:

The student text rephrases the core ideas of free jazz from the source (experimental nature, rejection of traditional structure) using entirely different wording, without directly copying phrases. No direct borrowing of the source's exact language occurs, so it does not meet the criteria for plagiarism, even without a citation (citation is for attribution of ideas, but the rephrasing is original in expression).

Answer:

No, it is not plagiarized.