The Free Jazz Collective

By Paul Acquaro Last summer I had the pleasure of seeing Jason Adasiewicz play with Peter Brotzmann at the Vision Festival and it was the fi...

    By Ananth Krishnan  The first thing I happened to do before reviewing this album was to pump the internet for some background inf...

By Paul Acquaro There is no argument in my mind that the Bill Frisell quartet(s) that recorded albums like "Where in the World" an...

 By Stef Put on a record by Wadada Leo Smith, and each time you will lifted up into a different dimension, out of your daily routine, n...

Reviewed by Joe Higham Maybe the first place to start with this album is to introduce the musicians. Bigoni, Solborg and Brow's f...

We're kind of celebrating our 5th anniversary here, starting in January 2007. We have reviewed well over 1,500 albums (we're at...

By Paul Acquaro Apparently they've been at this before, but "Departure of Reason" is my first experience with Jessica ...

 By Ananth Krishnan The thrill of listening to music is multiplied many fold when you have no idea what to expect from an album, what so...

By Paul Acquaro Ada is one dirty delicious hell raising improvisation. Within a minute of the sets start, Nilssen-Love's wash of ...

 By Stanley Zappa If the quilts of Gees Bend can have a unifying look, can the “free jazz” of Lower Manhattan have a unifying sound? ...