The Free Jazz Collective

By Eyal Hareuveni   Confluencia  is the fifth installation in the Danish-Argentinian Mark Solborg’s TUNGEMÅL (idiom or tongue in Danish...

Mysteries of Materiality and Transformation By Stuart Broomer I know of no musician who more strongly invokes the given ...

The roaring free-jazz of Willi Keller's The Circle is a joy to behold. Here is the quartet's concert from Jazzwerkstatt Peitz 2...

By Paul Acquaro   What's in a label? Pianist Matthew Shipp specifically chose this one to release his latest solo work, Cosmic Piano . N...

By Lee Rice Epstein There may be nothing Matthew Shipp writes about in Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings ...

By Gary Chapin When I first read Shipp’s essay, “ Black Mystery School Pianists ,” two years after it was originally publishe...

By Aloysius Ventham Having now passed my fortieth year, I have started re-watching the films, re-listening to the music and re-reading the...

By Eyal Hareuveni ...

By Landon Kuhlman Here to There is an apt title for an album that is just as interested in exploration as it is in returning home to tradit...

It's always nice to catch up with the folks keeping music alive over on the West Coast. Los Angeles, in particular, has been in the news...