The Free Jazz Collective

As listeners of any music, what we're looking for is a great listening experience. And for me, a great part of the fun of listening is h...

Recorded live at the Norwegian Molde Festival in 2006, this album brings three of Europe's most prominent free jazz musicians together. ...

I am not a true fan of free improv which just consists of squeaks and squeals and snorts and whinnies. I need a little minimum of true music...

(Three non free jazz reviews in a row. That's unusual and as of tomorrow I'm back into free jazz.) If you want to hear sad music, yo...

Joachim Kuhn, the German pianist, joins forces with Majid Bekkas, from Morroco, on guembri, vocals, oud, kalimba and percussion, and Ramon L...

I first got to know Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen via The Lemon Juice Quartet's "Peasant Songs", an easy to recommend, beaut...

If there ever was a mismatch between cover art and music, then this one is a serious contender. The sketchy drawing suggests total improviza...

If you can enjoy Coltrane and Ali's Interstellar Space, then you must be open to this duo consisting of Eddie Prévost on drums and Alan ...

In a bar last Sunday evening I heard a recent live recording by The Rolling Stones, playing I Can't Get No Satisfaction, wondering how i...

This is a great jazz year. Many great albums. And this one too. Chris Potter is nothing less than a great sax player, but in his former ende...