The Free Jazz Collective

Two years ago, the Norwegian tio Elephant9 released its first album, " Dodovoodoo ", which was praised here for its forward thinki...

After the excellent " Intimate Conversations ", Joe McPhee and Mikołaj Trzaska release a new album together, again with Jay Rosen ...

Piano trio albums are part of the more standard line-ups in "serious" jazz, in the tradition of Paul Bley and Bill Evans, bridging...

"The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, who billed themselves "The Creators of Jazz", have long been been dismissed as the White ...

Compared to some of the recent guitar trios that I reviewed , this album is the odd one out : it is not trying to impress, it is not trying ...

In 2003, young Ghanese master drummer Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng released "Afrijazz", with Bill Lowe on bass trombone and Taylor Ho Bynum...

Sometimes you wish that German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann would do something else that what he's been doing for the last fourty years, ...

Tatsuya Nakatani plays all kinds of percussion: bells, gongs, small drums, bowls, while Forbes Graham plays trumpet and piccolo trumpet, y...

In the best European free improv tradition of in-the-moment intensity and dialogue, this trio with Stefan Keune on alto and baritone saxopho...

On this solo album, French trumpeter Jean-Luc Cappozzo brings hommage to musicians who left a lasting impression on him, either through seve...