The Free Jazz Collective

By Irena Stevanovska The third album of Taxi Consilium comes in its own shape. Just like how the first two are completely different...

By Charlie Watkins   Umbra III is the fifth record by Umbra, the duo of Elias Stemeseder (spinet, electronics) and Christian Lillinger ...

By Gary Chapin I don’t want to seem like I’m setting up a strawman, but recordings with titles like this, positing a tangible conn...

By Don Phipps While not free jazz or sonically adventuresome per se, the music on Vio 3iO’s Viology possesses a modern...

By Fotis Nikolakopoulos If writing about a solo recording, of any kind of instrumentation, is a difficult task, one can imagine the diff...

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...