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Ever since Kieran Hebden dropped the idyllic laptop classic Rounds in 2003, he's chased his free jazz muse almost exclusively, collaborating with percussionist Steve Reid on a handful of thorny improv albums and layering chaotic skronks on 2005's Everything Ecstatic .

German reedman-composer Peter Brotzmann is, despite an immense catalog spanning over forty years of activity in free music, criminally underrepresented in the format of a "standard" piano-less quartet.

Reedman Bengt "Frippe" Nordstrom was both a sort of "enfant terrible" of Swedish jazz and one of the movers and shakers in the early years of Scandinavian jazz.

Jair-Rohm Parker Wells is an improvising musician based in Stockholm, Sweden. Curator of the MEETING series of festivals and developer of Loopadelica, a method of improvising with looping devices.

Charles Tyler was an innovative musician who could unfurl a maelstrom of ideas from just a spark.

John first fell under the spell of free jazz in the 1970s when he wistfully regarded the loft jazz scene from afar More about John .

When the veracity of the history of twentieth-century art is evaluated, what will be found in the proverbial time capsule? Where will "The Music," which Jelly Roll Morton christened as jass , sit with the works that were created by important composers, ranging from Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and John Coltrane, to Thelonious Monk, , George ...

The dauntless, combustible energies of jazz's 1960s avant-garde have long held a deep attraction for the guitarist Marc Ribot.

Jazz drummer Rashied Ali passed away yesterday at the age of 74. Ali , who was born Robert Patterson , began his career as a drummer in the US Army, and became famous in the 1960s when he drummed with John Coltrane .

History reveals a long list of venues that have contributed positively to the recorded legacy of some of the greatest figures in jazz.

Friday was awfully busy. But I find myself in the office today. So why not throw out some recommended weekend browsing while I'm here? -- A Long Diana Krall Interview : I'll confess that I'm a recovering Diana Krall doubter.

This ad-hoc free jazz supergroup lives up to its billing with a thrilling live performance recorded at the 2008 Vision Festival in New York City.

The Complete Quartets [volume VIII] . Recorded in 1994. Delos : DE 3038 . The Orford String Quartet Andrew Dawes : violin Kenneth Perkins : violin Terence Helmer : viola Denis Brott : cello .

9, at 20 Dashiell Hammett St. 2. Church of Satan poobah Anton LaVey supposedly cursed the Fox Plaza, site of the Fox movie palace, taking the building's 13th floor to the next spooky level.

Led by avant, free-jazz drummers Marc Edwards and Weasel Walter , this ensemble pushes the envelope via a nuclear-like aerial assault that in some instances might signify a caricature of vintage, high-octane Albert Ayler fare.

Active in expanding definitions and expectations since the 1960s, Peter Brtzmann is perhaps the elder statesman of European free jazz.

Bach Edition: Complete Works[disc II-1] . 1996, 1999. Brilliant Classics : 93102/24 . Leon Berben : harpsichord/Cembalo The Well Tempered Clavier , book I Preludium, Fuga, and Preludium again, and Fuga again.

Recorded live last year at the Bimhaus in Amsterdam, this is a scalding free encounter between longtime compatriots Peter Brotzmann on saxophones and clarinet, Toshinori Kondo on electric trumpet, Massimo Pupillo on electric Bass and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums.