The Free Jazz Collective

Reviews of Free Jazz and Improvised Music

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Zeena Parkins, Cecilia Lopez - Red Shifts (Relative Pitch Records, 2025)

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By  Ferruccio Martinotti Don’t know you, but for us harp always meant Her Majesty Alice Coltrane first, then Dorothy Ashby and basi...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Ben Bennett – Answers (Lobby Art Editions, 2025)

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By  Fotis Nikolakopoulos The opening track, of this great long play vinyl (that made it in my top ten list for this year) s...
Monday, December 29, 2025

Suzan Peeters - Cassotto (Blickwinkel, 2025)

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By Charlie Watkins  Listening to BBC’s Late Junction programme recently, I suddenly had to stop what I was doing and just listen. I was ...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Arkady Gotesman - Music for an Imaginary Ballet (NoBusiness, 2025)

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By Eyal Hareuveni Arkady Gotesman (b. 1959) is one of the unsung heroes of European free jazz and free music, and clearly one of t...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

Stephen Grew – Fire (Discus Music, 2025)

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By Don Phipps The beauty found within the three improvisations of pianist Stephen Grew’ s Fire feels submerged, discoverable...
Friday, December 26, 2025

Serious Series 2025

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By Paul Acquaro FRIDAY It's a full house at the Exploratorium, a performance space tucked away in Berlin's bu...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

Free Jazz Collective's Top Albums of 2025

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  Jazz (c)  David Monaghan Compiling top 10 lists is a nerve...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Two Trios

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By Paul Acquaro    Two trios - both drums, bass and saxophone but taking their own distinct approaches to making creative, inqu...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Phil Haynes & Free Country - Liberty Now! (Corner Store Jazz, 2025)

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by Gary Chapin Free Country is a Phil Haynes (drums) project, with Drew Gress (bass), Jim Yanda (guitar), and Hank Roberts (c...

Almufaraka – Master of Disorder (Circum-Disc, 2024)

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By  Fotis Nikolakopoulos Using the voice as a main instrument is not something new obviously. Using three voices (here by G...
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