The Free Jazz Collective

OK - my blog broke down, but no excuses, back to work and let's catch up. I am not a real mainstream lover, but here are some of the mor...

Saxophonist Rob Reddy has always had his own style, not really mainstream jazz, not really avant either, but taking a modern middle-road, ...

The spouses Satoko Fujii (piano) and Natsuki Tamura (trumpet) do it again : and how! Fujii is a musical octopus who can handle any form of j...

Arve Henriksen is one of the top Norwegian trumpet players of the moment. He is probably better know among the electronic ambient crowd for ...

Ned Rothenberg (sax, clarinet) creates something remarkable here : music which stands beyond any known genre. His well-known Sync trio, with...

For the first time in a long time Rabih Abou-Khalil goes back to the roots of his music, like what he already brought in his albums "Na...

This is Thomas Chapin's last recorded live date, at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague in 1995. Chapin died from leukemia in 1998 ...

I have most of Henri Texier's albums, with the exception of his latest, "Alerte à l'Eau" published in February of this yea...

This is the fourth CD by the Swedish/Norwegian band Atomic, with the Swedes Fredrik Ljungkvist on clarinet/sax and Magnus Broo on trumpet, a...

These are the first two albums of Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, a band with which he has recorded with various line-ups wi...