The Free Jazz Collective

Reviews of Free Jazz and Improvised Music

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Arsis - Désordres (Circum-Disc, 2010) ****

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If you like Jim Black's Alasnoaxis, or Chris Speed's "Yeah No", or Tyft, you will possibly like this album too. This Frenc...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Braxton

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Well, yes, here is some Braxton again. Prolific as ever, open-minded as ever, creative as ever, adventurous as ever, ranging from traditiona...
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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Fred Anderson dies at the age of 81

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Fred Anderson, the father and the heart of Chicago's free jazz scene, died at the age of 81 from a heart attack. Anderson is one of my...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Commitment - The Complete Recordings 1981/1983 (No Business, 2010) ****

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I don't know how Lithuanian label No Business does it, but they have the knack to find back and re-issue amazing stuff. "Commitment...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

The Ames Room - In (Monotype Records, 2010) ****

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The Ames Room is French altoist Jean-Luc Guionnet with Austrialians Clayton Thomas on bass and Will Guthrie on drums. This album is witho...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Grid Mesh - Coordinates (FMR, 2010) ****½

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Musical quality is often the result of a focused common vision on the musical project by the artists involved. This trio manages to do exact...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Lol Coxhill & Enzo Rocco - Fine Tuning, The Gradisca Concert (Amirani, 2010) ****

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It is a short album : one track of thirty-three minutes, with Lol Coxhill on soprano and Enzo Rocco on guitar, yet every minute is a pleasur...

Peter Evans Quartet - Live In Lisbon (Clean Feed, 2010) ****

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Liner notes rarely describe the process used (and why should they?), yet on this album it is almost programmatic : " In addition to be...
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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Trumpeter and music innovator Bill Dixon passed away

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Yesterday night, trumpeter and music innovator Bill Dixon passed away in his sleep at the age of 84, leaving a wife and two children behind....
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Frode Gjerstad and friends

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Norwegian saxophonist Frode Gjerstad is a fierce and prolific musician, who moves more and more into free improv territory with his small ba...
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