The Free Jazz Collective

By Martin Schray After the well-attended focus on Andrew Cyrille on the opening day the “normal“ prog...

By Martin Schray Last year I covered NYC's Vision Festival with Paul Acquaro, but since he has mov...

By Stef The album cover art depicts a car on the edge of a surface collapse. It still has some chances, but not much. It is unclear what...

By Troy Dostert It’s always somewhat puzzling when a musician with trumpeter Ralph Alessi’s chops can’t quite seem to earn the same ...

By Eyal Hareuveni Readers of this blog need no introduction to the work of Portuguese sax player Rodrigo Amado and Chris Corsa...

By Keith Prosk Macie Stewart (violin, voice) and Lia Kohl (cello, voice) play freely for four tracks lasting 23 minutes on Pocket F...

By Eyal Hareuveni Ken Vandermark says that his second album with Dutch guitarist Terrie Ex, aka Terrie Hessels, is “perhaps the m...

By Nick Metzger "So...Who is this guy?" These words are a touchstone in the liner notes for Mr. Flaherty's first sol...

By Keith Prosk Despite performing solo frequently, Winter Solos for Robert Ryman is contrabassist Damon Smith’s first solo recordin...

By Fotis Nikolakopoulos There aren’t many things happening right now that connect the international free jazz and improvisational ...