The Free Jazz Collective

François Carrier is a stellar Candadian soprano saxophonist. His tone is warm, buttery, yet powerful. I was already strongly touched by his ...

Tin Hat (Trio) is a group to my taste. Call it chamber jazz, call it folk jazz, it is great music. The core of the band consists of Mark Ort...

Here is the list of the trumpet trios (trumpet/bass/drums) I know of at the moment. Don Cherry - Blue Lake Charlie Haden/Don Cherry/Ed Black...

Rob Mazurek is hard to pigeon-hole. With his Chicago Underground Duo/Trio/Quartet he produced consistently great avant-garde jazz CDs. On ...

Alvin Fielder is a jazz-drummer and a pharmacist and one of the founding members of the AACM in Chicago, a highly unusual combination. ...

It must be clear that I am more than a little crazy about Hamid Drake and William Parker, the best "drum&bass" duo of the worl...

Another trumpet trio (and there are more to come). This is actually the first CD by Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio, although not yet n...

A moment of joy. New CDs are entering the new year and Roulette At Location One by Trio X is already reserving its space on the rankings of ...

Mâäk's Spirit is a Belgian jazz band that has a track record of avant-garde adventures, with varying success. Lives and Le Nom Du Vent a...

This is what I meant in my piece on Don Cherry. His openness to look for new things, has often lead to abuse of his name for the sake of sel...