The Free Jazz Collective

By Sammy Stein The Ava Trio comprises Giuseppe Doronzo on baritone saxophone, fluxophone, mizmar, and gong, Esat Ekincioglu on dou...

By Richard Blute When I started listening to and collecting jazz, I tended to stay away from groups without a drummer. I rather naively ...

 By Stef Gijssels We've reviewed many trumpet-bass-drums trios over the years. Here's a new update on some recent material with this...

By Matty Bannond Nothing in Duisburg stays stuck in place for long. The north-west German city, where the Rhine and Ruhr rivers co...

I was at a house concert once, many years ago, where Evan Parker gave a twenty minute solo concert. I was sitting in a plush chair approxim...

By Stuart Broomer I first wrote about AMM at some length about 25 years ago. The most durable sentence in the piece (further expand...

By Eyal Hareuveni   Experiencing a collaborative project by the idiosyncratic producer-composer duo—Austrian keyboard player Elias St...

By Paul Acquaro   Vinny Golia / Ken Filiano / Michael TA Thompson - Catastasis (Nine Winds Records, 2025)   An absolute...

By Nick Metzger The (Exit) Knarr project by esteemed Norwegian composer, bassist, bandleader and apparent Austi...

By Hrayr Attarian The provocative Temple of Muses  is a collaborative effort among four master improvisers who also share an arti...