The Free Jazz Collective

Reviews of Free Jazz and Improvised Music

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Some AACM on Record (Part 1)

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By Gary Chapin The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) was one of the most fertile creative organization...
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Paula Rae Gibson and Alex Bonney - In Another World We Will Live For Ever (33Xtreme Records/33 Jazz Records, 2026)

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  By Sammy Stein When Paula Rae Gibson contacted me to ask if I would review her new album, she described it simply yet profoundly ...
Monday, June 22, 2026

Columbia Icefield - A Silence Opens (Out of Your Head, 2026)

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By Eyal Hareuveni A Silence Opens is the third, and unfortunately, the last album of the Columbia Icefield, the quartet that trum...
Sunday, June 21, 2026

The Utopia of Better Processes: An Interview with Christian Lillinger

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Photo by Nino Halm By Ljubisa Tosic* Anyone lucky enough to have seen Christian Lillinger's project Open Form for Society live...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

Christian Lillinger - Open Form for Society II (Plaist Records, 2026)

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By Martin Schray There is improvised music that grabs you right by the guts, the connection to this music is imm...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Hyper Elastic Jinx - We Vote Force Majeure (Barefoot Records, 2026)

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By Brian Earley     Let it happen at our peril.   This is the title of the final track on We Vote Force Majeure , a ...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

JAZZ IS DEAD! FESTIVAL - Torino, May 29-31

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By  Ferruccio Martinotti A small yet great festival that along the years brought into town the likes of Peter Brotzmann, Mats Gust...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

The Avant Garde Flamenco Trio – Lunar(Redshift Records, 2026)

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By Nick Ostrum Lunar came as something of a surprising to me. I found the title of the group appealing and somewhat cryptic. So,...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

18th Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin Festival (June 2026)

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  By Paul Acquaro   Based in Strasbourg, France, Jazzdor has been producing its flagship festival for more than 35 years, with a sister edi...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Achim Kaufmann, Yorgos Dimitriadis, Michael Thieke – Hiss and Whirr (Wide Ear Records, 2025)

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By Dan Sorrells  In this moment of hollow AI mimicry, the hiss and whirr of three musicians locked in improvisation starkly highlights t...
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