The Free Jazz Collective

By  Stef Ever heard of Tanja Feichtmair? She plays alto. Ever heard of Uli Winter? He plays cello. Ever heard of Fredi Pröll? He plays d...

By  Stef Some musicians seem to be made for each other, as is the case with these three Australian masters, Marc Hannaford on piano, Sco...

By  Stef New York drummer Tyshawn Sorey is already a stylistic reference in modern drumming, with a discography of five albums, the late...

By Paolo Casertano Desist  is an album from 1999 featuring the Icelandic composer and bassist Skúli Sverrisson and the Australian clarin...

By  Stef For one or the other reason, plenty of guitar albums have remained unreviewed on this blog, and maybe that's due to the instr...

By  Martin Schray I guess we all know this. You buy a new record/CD and as soon as you are at home you put it on your stereo. You listen...

By  Colin Green James Joyce (1882 – 1941) lived in Trieste for fifteen years from 1904, where he completed A Portrait of the Artist as...

By Paolo Casertano John Butcher has a strange effect on me. I couldn’t explain why, but I perceive, more than with other sax players, hi...

By  Janus and Karl Listening to free jazz while driving is relaxing, inspiring, and elevating (at least for us). Usually it is more fun...

By Dan Sorrells I’m a sucker for the thick, bluesy tone of Adam Lane’s bass—somehow, he always manages to convey its grittiest, most grou...