By Martin Schray German pianist Oliver Schwerdt likes to bring together musicians who have never played together before. This usually works across generations, as with the New Old Luten Quint...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/05/oliver-schwerdt-baby-sommer-barry-guy.html
By Matty Bannond The human brain makes a lot of predictions. When life contradicts those forecasts, it unleashes a variety of physical and emotional responses. A trio of high-profile improvis...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/05/sally-gates-trevor-dunn-greg-fox.html
By Gary Chapin On April 27, Tim Berne held a listening party on Bandcamp for the Oceans And album, LUCID/STILL (Screwgun 2024). Aurora Nealand was also present. It was great to listen to this di...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/05/tim-berne-oceans-and-listening-party.html
By Don Phipps More modern classical than free jazz, James Ilgenfritz’s “Stay Logged In On This Trusted Device” features four Ilgenfritz compositions performed in four different settin...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/05/james-ilgenfritz-stay-logged-in-on-this.html
By Taylor McDowell Space is Lisa Ullén (piano), Elsa Bergman (double bass) and Anna Lund (drums).The piano trio based in Stockholm is back with a fiery follow-up to their 2022 debut . The trio ...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/space-embrace-space-relative-pitch-2024.html
By Eyal Hareuveni Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard is an experimental-interdisciplinary Danish composer whose work spans from contemporary composition and sound art to performance, conceptual and visu...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/niels-lyhne-lokkegaard-quatuor-bozzini.html
Photo by Cristina Marx/Photomusix What is your greatest joy in improvised music? Those endings! Secondly, getting paid for it. What quality do you most admire in the musicians you perfo...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/joe-hertenstein-sunday-interview.html
By David Cristol Bergamo Jazz Festival had its 45th edition from March 21 to 24 with an uncommonly versatile programming courtesy of Joe Lovano, who introduced and attended most of the shows a...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/bergamo-jazz-festival-2024.html
By Ferruccio Martinotti The supreme Ava Mendoza is back on our turntables and, easy to predict, it’s sheer bliss again. Last year she released, as Mendoza Hoff Revels, the amazing Echoloca...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/ava-mendoza-dave-sewelson-of-it-but-not.html
By Don Phipps One thing about John Zorn: he never ceases to surprise. And “Parrhesiastes” is exhibit A. Performed by the electric Chaos Magick ensemble – which features two keyboard pla...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/jonn-zorn-parrhesiastes-tzadik-2023.html
By Eyal Hareuveni It is quite unusual that a free improviser, even the most innovative and creative one, gets a chance to invite many of his past collaborators to perform a composition that...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/john-butcher-13-fluid-fixations-weight.html
By Nick Ostrum “…In quiet solitude or blasting across the alkali flats in a jet-powered, monkey-navigated...... and it goes on like this.” – Rev. Timothy Lovejoy, The Simpsons In the ...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/blasting-across-alkali-flats-with-evil.html
By Fotis Nikolakopoulos Organismic Theory is the Greek duo of Nicolas Skordas on various wind instruments and Selfish Limbs on analogue synth and fx. On this cd they approach jazz and free ja...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/organismic-theory-space-from-spaces.html
Photo by Cristina Marx/Photomusix What is your greatest joy in improvised music? To play the clarinet What quality do you most admire in the musicians you perform with? Swing. W...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/rudi-mahall-sunday-interview.html
By David Cristol FROM MARCH 28 TO 30, THE 2024 EDITION OF (NE)POSLUŠNO / SOUND (DIS)OBEDIENCE TOOK PLACE IN LJUBLJANA, IN THE ŠPANSKI BORCI CULTURAL CENTER HOUSING DIFFERENT ROOMS FOR ...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/neposlusno-sound-disobedience-2024.html
By Sammy Stein Songs Of The Fathers is a recording by Phil Raskin and Frank Doblekar, the duo at the core of the Satya collaboration, here enhanced by Synthesist Neil Alexander and Paul ...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/satya-songs-of-fathers-celebration-of.html
By Nick Ostrum Damascene Vancouverite Emad Armoush has been at it for almost 25 years, now, bringing Arabic and Iberian oud, ney, guitar and vocal traditions to ears across the globe. Wh...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/emad-armoushs-duos-electritradition.html
By Martin Schray Free jazz trios consisting of saxophone, bass and drums have a hard time these days, because - let’s be honest - the paths on which they travel are largely explored: wh...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/amalie-dahlhenrik-sandstad-dalenjomar.html
By Don Phipps Complexity is at times its own virtue. And the music on Chad Fowler’s Birdsong certainly is complex. Take its instrumentation – Fowler on sax and bass flute, Shanyse S...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/chad-fowler-birdsong-mahakala-2024.html
© Beat Streuli, Zürich 2013 What is your greatest joy in improvised music? The greatest joy is that you can move freely musically - without taboos and restrictions that could come from ou...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/christoph-gallio-sunday-interview.html
By Don Phipps A Japanese Zen rock garden is majestic in its own right. The stones, manicured and ordered yet free and flowing, seem to reflect a cosmic calendar where infinite time can b...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/bill-mcbirnie-reflections-for-paul-horn.html
By Gary Chapin I feel shallow sometimes about how strongly I react to the timbre of things. Like, forget the ideas or the improvisation or the composition, sometimes just the sound gets me...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/science-friction-no-tamales-on.html
NEW OLD LUTEN TRIO - TRIDENT JUNCTURE (EUPHORIUM, 2023) By Paul Acquaro Leipzig based pianist Oliver Schwerdt, along with Berlin based drummer Christian Lillinger, have been over several...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/new-old-luten-trio-something-new.html
By Guido Montegrandi Cuneiform record is celebrating its 40th year with an impressive series of releases and Relics by Antistatic is no exception. This is the first full length work...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/antistatic-relics-cuneiform-records-2024.html
By Nick Ostrum Recorded live December 18, 2022, Live at Café Oto London is one of those live masterpieces. I am sure any night this trio played would be enrapturing. This one, however, ...
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/04/christoph-gallio-dominic-lash-mark.html