The Free Jazz Collective
Reviews of Free Jazz and Improvised Music
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Thing - Thing (Re-Release, 2007) ****
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" ReRelease.net " is a label with a mission : to re-release free and avant jazz albums that are no longer available, and to distri...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Sam Newsome - Monk Abstractions (SomeNewMusic, 2007) ***½
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Sam Newsome certainly is an excellent soprano saxophonist, but his take on some of Thelonious Monk's more known compositions, also is mo...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Lonely Woman - 8 Femmes Seules (Minium Label, 2007) ****
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Last year, the Minium Label came out with a series of CDs with the brilliant idea to ask all of the individual musicians to play a cover of ...
Monday, January 28, 2008
Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik, Mat Maneri, Paul Motian - Two Miles A Day (Loyal Label, 2007) ****
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Two young and talented musicians, pianist Jacob Sacks and bassist Eivind Opsvik talk about with whom of all the living jazz greats, they wou...
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Gwincinski-Richter-Skolik - Jupiter Urizen Wernyhora Trungpa (Not Two, 1998) ****
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This is an amazing album, which is now available for download on several sites. It's a kind of guitar jazz instrumental music, reminisce...
Friday, January 25, 2008
Vandermark 5 - Beat Reader (Atavistic, 2008) ****½
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Cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm sure adds some spice and change of perspective to the Vandermark 5, a free jazz band with stong roots in the tradi...
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Why free jazz?
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True art is about emotions. True music is about emotions. Few musical genres have the power to unleash all emotional reactions, and free jaz...
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Jane Ira Bloom - Mental Weather (Outline, 2008) ***½
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I have always liked the music of Jane Ira Bloom, but not too enthusiastically. Her soprano playing is excellent, her use of electronics is a...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Andrew D'Angelo - Skadra Degis (Skirl Records, 2008) ****½
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ANDREW D'ANGELO IS HOSPITALIZED : PLEASE READ THIS TOO Three big names of modern jazz : Andrew D'Angelo on sax, Trevor Dunn on bass ...
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Hélène Labarrière - Les Temps Changent (Emouvance, 2007) ****
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Creating musical tension is not an easy task : you need to work on a sense of anticipation from the listener, who enjoys the surprises and c...
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