The Free Jazz Collective

Wadada Leo Smith's second record for the Treader label is better than the previous " Brooklyn Duos ", on which he plays duets ...

I do not usually review CDs that I don't like, but once in a while I will do it to make a more general point. The Swiss KiKu Trio consis...

When I said some days ago that there aren't many women trumpet-players, I missed one who is basically living and playing in my backyard....

Your humble servant is a great fan of the "Bitches Brew" period of Miles Davis, so when young bands bring materials that is influe...

Maybe I exaggerate, but I like albums to have a musical coherence from beginning to end. Variation is needed, and even necessary, but a good...

More than any other art form, music has the possibility to express anything that goes beyond the rational and the logical, which makes it of...

Tearing his way through jazz, Icelandic guitarist Hilmar Jensson continues to move even deeper into the possibilities of power jazz, buildin...

Dallas-based trumpet-player Dennis González will always be one of my favorites for this warm and solid tone, his openness of mind and the em...

You like free jazz raw and hard and real and authentic? Well then here's a treat for you: Daniel Carter meets Randall Colbourne meets Pa...

There aren't many women trumpet-players. I know Ingrid Jensen, Jamie Branch , Nadje Noordhuis, and now Gunhild Seim. Seim is a Norwegian...