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There is no limit of what you can do with instruments. Here are some examples of guitar trios that bend the conceptions of the genre, from classical stuff to intergallactic destruction, deconstruction and reconstruction.
All four albums come from a...
Rolph Kühn is without a doubt one of the best jazz clarinetists, and he has actively participated in the history of jazz in the last sixty years (he is now 80), playing amongst others in radio big bands, playing in the Benny Goodman orchestra, with...
The French bassist Joëlle Léandre does not really belong to any musical genre: she plays bass and does so with everyone who wants to interact musically, with open minds, creating open-ended music, adventurous and without preconceived notions or...
This is without a doubt one of the best surprises of the year, almost fourty years after it was performed, this wonderful first performance of "Splinters" sees the light of day, and it is a great recording, with a sound quality that is sufficiently...
After the excellent "The Abstract Truth", Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado presents his new trio, with Miguel Miro on cello and Gabriel Ferrandini on drums. The album is a wonderful example of free improvisation, often subdued, soft-toned, with the...
Excellent blog! Just found it a couple of days ago, while searching the net on 'free jazz'. I'm working on a PhD focusing on ethics, free jazz and improvisation. So your blog is an interesting source to me.
Best regards,
Frank (The Netherlands)
A very interesting blog of a real music lover, which gives real information about free music. I use it very often to orient myself in the broad lanscape of all free music. Compliments!
