The Free Jazz Collective

By Martin Schray On Friday, the penultimate day of the Jazzweek, as the festival entered the home stretch,...

By Martin Schray On the sixth evening of Jazzweek, the focus was on Cologne’s Ehrenfeld neighborhood, which is very multicultur...

By Martin Schray The hot weather has said goodbye and with it - perhaps - the adverse conditions that I felt almost h...

By Paul Acquaro Berlin guitarist Ronny Graupe's The Call opens with a bass and drum line that had me thinking of Dave Holland's ope...

By Martin Schray Half-time at the Cologne Jazzweek and what has run like a thread through the week so far is the discrepancy between ...

By Gary Chapin Respiration adds to the Cecil Taylor oeuvre a nearly perfect 43 minutes of Taylor’s solo power recorded at a ...

By Martin Schray The third day of the Cologne Jazzweek offered a large program, from seven gigs I chose th...

By Gary Chapin This one’s going on my list of “joyful” albums of 2022. Saxes, piano, bass, and drums explore the space of the char...

By Martin Schray Apart from the music, the defining aspects of the last two days have been the noise and the sw...

  By Paul Acquaro My first visit to A L'ARME was for it's second installment in 2013 when I  was still bedazzled by the shaggy ch...