The Free Jazz Collective

At the end of this summer, the Free Jazz Blog will be heading to Antwerp to check out the Summer Bummer festival. Held over the last wee...

By Eyal Hareuveni Reza Askari is a German (son of an Iranian-born father and a German mother), Cologne-based double bass player, c...

By Martin Schray Bijou is a French noun meaning “gem”, “treasure”, or “jewel”. It’s often used in a formal or figurative sen...

By Richard Blute “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” -A sentence proposed by Noam Chomsky that he claimed was grammatically c...

By Hrayr Attarian French writer and filmmaker Georges Perec was known for using wordplay to explore identity, loss, and grief...

By Eyal Hareuveni Anyone who has experienced someone close, and especially a young one, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease...

Today's Sunday Video is from the power trio Helicopter, which looks to be 2/3 of Free Jazz Blog favorite Gorilla Mask with Simon Camatta...

By Stuart Broomer These are recent and distinguished bands united by the extent to which they’re refined, defined and expanded by...

By Fotis Nikolakopoulos   The music made by this quartet possesses agility and versatility at the same time. They move quite ea...

By Ferruccio Martinotti It was only a matter of time. In the cosmology of our music, one thing was certain: the...