The Free Jazz Collective

By  Martin Schray With their sixth album, it’s a good opportunity to reflect Fire!’s work so far. In 2009 Mats Gustafsson (saxes, elect...

By Fotis Nikolakopoulos   When you try, as we on the Freejazzblog do, to support the small totally independent labels, you get to meet ...

By Wendy Eisenberg On Syrinx Effect’s first full length album, A Sky You Could Strike a Match On , the Seattle-based duo deftly explore...

By Stef Here is one more album for which to applaud the Clean Feed label. I think Pedro Costa is one of the best scouts of good mus...

By Paul Acquaro A few years back Pennsylvania based pianist Ron Stabinsky joined the Pennsylvania-philic Mostly Other People Do the Kill...

By Lee Rice Epstein Take the title as an imperative, if you wish. Occasionally, I think of it as the name of a school about ditches, ei...

By Paige Johnson-Brown Nendo dango is a human-made clay seed ball used to revegetate devastated lands. Nendo Dango is also the Buenos A...

By Lee Rice Epstein If you’ve kept up with trumpet player Lina Allemano’s career, you’ve likely read or heard about her two main groups...

By Stef Two years ago, trumpeter Lina Allemano's first album with Titanium Riot ended on my end-of-year list with a five-star ran...

By Lee Rice Epstein It’s been two years since trumpeter Lina Allemano’s last record with her electro-acoustic Titanium Riot ( Kiss the ...