The Free Jazz Collective

Photo (c) Petra Cvelbar David has been actively writing about jazz and improvised music for several French publications since 2010. When not...

Gregg Daniel Miller is the author of Mimesis and Reason: Habermas's Political Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2011), and has taught political ...

Sarah “FLAKE” Grosser is an Australian born, German-based author, lyricist and vocal artist. Exploding onto the scene with her self-publishe...

I am a jazz advocate and lover but still feel, after decades of listening to the music, there is so much more to uncover and explore. I...

Nick is a historian of modern Europe. More appropriate to this forum, he has been an avid fan of avant-garde music since his teenage years...

Sammy Stein is an author, columnist, reviewer and broadcaster. She has hosted radio shows and covered for BBC Radio as well as internet st...

Hrayr Attarian  has been writing about music, particularly improvised music, since 2004.  He writes for Jazziz, All About Jazz, and has writ...

Irena is the founder of the Macedonian review website mono-ton.com and a freelance audio editor. Shaping her whole life to evolve around m...

Gary Chapin wrote a lot about this music back in the early '90s, when he was a frequent denizen at the original Knitting Factory, and t...

Aside from his family Nick’s passion in life is listening to, playing, and talking about music. He’s always leaned towards the avant-garde...

Guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and composer William Rossi was born and raised in Italy. He developed a passion for music thanks to his fat...

Matty Bannond is a 40-year-old fiction writer and music journalist. He was born and raised near Manchester, UK. He now lives in Germany....

Stef : started this blog in December 2006 and wrote over 1,000 CD reviews in the meantime - amateur of life - loves far too many thing...

Lee Rice Epstein lives in California with his wife, kids, and their massive libraries of music and books. He started playing the drums and...

Paul is fairly certain that it was a combination of Elton Dean's El Skid , John Surman's The Trio, and Marc Ribot's Spiritual U...

Keith was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas and currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. He has been a voracious listener of variou...

I was born in north west Italy and, growing up in the 70’s, free music was kind of a natural landscape to me. Anyway, it was a Don Che...

Troy Dostert grew up in Southern California, but he now lives in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, where he teaches high school history.  ...

Jury Tosh Kobayashi-Mackay is a musician and scholar. Jury plays double bass in a variety of styles including but not limited to noise music...

Was born in Southern Germany and has lived there ever since. The initial event that won him for improvised music was Peter Brötzmann’s 50th ...