The Free Jazz Collective

Reviews of Free Jazz and Improvised Music

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Miles Davis @ 100 - A Celebration Through Albums (2)

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Day two of our celebration of Miles Davis at 100. See day one here . On the Corner (Columbia Records, 1972) Abrasive, ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Sonny Rollins 1930 - 2026

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Photo by John Abbott By Martin Schray There’s this scene that has gone down in the history of jazz. A tall, almost s...
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Miles Davis @ 100 - A Celebration Through Albums (1)

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Miles Davis, born on May 26, 1926 would turn 100 today. The jazz world is rife with memorials of this centennial and since almost anyone who...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Scenes from Jazz in E

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By Paul Acquaro   Every year the Jazz in E festival takes place on the long Ascension Day long weekend in Eberswalde, a small city a...
Saturday, May 23, 2026

Keenan Ruffin and Stan Zenkov – The Mechanics of Getting Anywhere (Moon Villain Records, 2025)

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 By Matty Bannond Google can’t introduce you to Keenan Ruffin or Stan Zenkov. ChatGPT will guess their biographical details with tr...
Friday, May 22, 2026

Lonely Woman ... female artists and solo horn performances

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By Stef Gijssels On May 22nd, 1959, Ornette Coleman recorded " Lonely Woman ", after 67 years still one of the most beautiful piec...
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Thursday, May 21, 2026

Booker Stardrum - Close-up On The Outside (We Jazz Records, 2026)

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By Ferruccio Martinotti First transitive property of the Free: if A plays with B and B plays with C, A will play with C. From which...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Gunther Hampel (1937 -2026)

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Photo by Peter Gannushkin By Martin Schray “I don't make music, I am music.“ A typical Gunter Hampel quote about Gunter ...
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Sylvie Courvoisier Trio – Éclats-Live in Europe (Intakt, 2026)

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By Kenneth Blanchard Swiss native Sylvie Courvoisier has not escaped notice. She began her recording career in the 1994 and ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

DoYeon Kim - Wellspring (TAO Forms, 2026)

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  By Sammy Stein   A gayageum is a traditional Korean plucked zither with 12, 18, 21, or 25 strings. Historically made from paulownia wo...
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