The Free Jazz Collective

Reviews of Free Jazz and Improvised Music

Friday, November 7, 2025

Bloomers - Cyclism (Relative Pitch, 2025)

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By  Hrayr Attarian The work of the Copenhagen-based trio Bloomers, named after the American women’s rights activist Amelia Bloomer, is a he...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

Stay Off Limits - Stay Off Limits I (self-released, 2025)

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By Martin Schray Recently, based on the release of Lampen’s Würgeengel , I confessed my soft spot for guitar/drum duos. And what could be b...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Introducing Experimental Sax Player and Sound Artist Tom Solovietzik

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By Eyal Hareuveni Tom Soloveitzik is an Israeli soprano and tenor sax player and sound artist based in Paris, who has spent the re...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

John Zorn - Suite for Piano (Tzadik, 2022), Ballades (Tzadik, 2024), Impromptus and Nocturnes (Tzadik, 2025)

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By Lee Rice Epstein Recently, David Adler took to JazzTimes to exclaim about the large amount of excellent guitar music composed ...
Monday, November 3, 2025

Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura - Ki (Libra, 2025)

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By Stef Gijssels This year we are blessed with several trumpet-piano albums. There is the excellent duet between Sylvie Courvoisier and Wada...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Jung-Jae Kim's Shamanism 4tet

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A intriguing new group from Berlin, the Shamanism 4tet is presented here at a show in late September at the at Kühlspot Social Club. The gr...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Steve Beresford, John Butcher, Max Eastley - Some Uncharted Evening (scatterArchive, 2025)

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By Martin Schray I’ve been listening to a lot of John Butcher’s music lately, his entire repertoire. But when I heard this...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Anthony Braxton Quartet - Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance, 2025)

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Roundtable conversation with Gary Chapin , Andrew Choate , and Lee Rice Epstein We join our tri...
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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Angelica Sanchez, Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez - Live at Jazzdor (Maya Recordings, 2024)

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By Stef Gijssels The question why some albums never get reviewed is as baffling for a seasoned reviewer as it can be for the regular reader....
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Ivo Perelman and Ray Anderson - 12 Stages of Spiritual Alchemy (Fundacja Słuchaj Records, 2025)

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By Sammy Stein An unusual pairing – that of sax and trombone makes for a worthy listen on this impressive recording. Saxophone play...
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