The Free Jazz Collective

By Stef Some years ago, I qualified South-Korean cellist Okkyung Lee as the Jimi Hendrix of the cello, because she manages to speak a la...

By Martin Schray Founded in 1921 the Donaueschinger Musiktage is an annual festival for contemporary music...

By Nick Metzger I got completely hung up on this album for the better part of a month and a half this fall. From its release date ...

By Eyal Hareuveni Two new trios from Boston based pianist-composer-educator Pandelis Karayorgis, both recorded in informal house sessions ...

Fredrik Ljungkvist (sax) Magnus Broo (tpt), and Håvard Wiik (key) of Atomic By Eric Stern Atomic is a band which features players f...

By Stef " Eave " is a new quartet of young Canadian avant-garde musicians, of whom Anna Webber is possibly the best known to v...

By Paul Acquaro Beacon, NY is an old town, certainly by American standards. It was named after beacon fires that burned at the top o...

By Stef " Gossamers " is a free improvisation album by two young Australian musicians: Rosalind Hall on alto saxophone and Jud...

By Eric J. Stern The Winter Jazzfest is back and with it returns the old debates of “what is jazz?” or, more precisely, why call this a ja...

By Keith Prosk I first heard percussionist Claire Rousay in duo with guitarist Parham Daghighi when they opened for Kuzu in Austin, T...