The Free Jazz Collective

By Stef It is a rare quality to play sensitive, lyrical and calm music without falling into the abyss of cheep sentimentalism à la Mathias...

By Joe Higham It seems that jazz and more open ended forms of music are alive and well in the UK, or at least that's the impression I ...

By Stef With the unlikely line-up of bass horns, Madeleine Bischof on contrabass flute,  Thomas K.J. Mejer on contrabass-saxophone and Leo...

By Stef On their previous album, " You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago ", I compared Fire! to a modern day Pink Floyd of the early per...

By Paul Acquaro Joe McPhee's Survival Unit III's "Synchronicity" is a tough, dark and moving affair. His experience work...

By Stef Well, I forgot about this album when giving an overview of recent albums with Gerald Cleaver on drums, here in a trio led by teno...

Great drummers tell stories: they are not only the time-keepers or the rhythmic base of the band. Great drummers make the music. Jack DeJohn...

By Stef I'm listening to too much music at the same time, which blocks my writing somehow. At the occasion of the now official relea...

By Paul Acquaro I recall a coffee table book, probably from the late 90s, that was dedicated to photographs of industrial spaces. The star...

By Joe Higham I heard Slumgum on Jason Crane's Jazz Session a few weeks ago and was immediately struck by what seemed an interesting g...