Free Jazz / Avante Garde - CD Reviews (1158)
These duo and trio performances at St. Michael’s Church, culled from the 2007 Appleby Jazz Festival in Appleby, England., signify the freely improvised component to the …
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Per the album notes, these three artists have respectively appeared on almost fifty CIMP recordings. Needless to state, they’re very busy folks and seldom - or perhaps n…
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This 2008 release presents some of the more intense tenor sax work you’ll likely hear. It’s a coherent and structured endeavor, where song-form and furious improvisation…
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Augusto Monk’s self-produced DVD, Stories & Grooves, is a rather curious and somewhat atypical production, to say the least. Here again is another form of (I gu…
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Saxophone giants Roscoe Mitchell and Evan Parker have reaped numerous benefits by employing the multinational Transatlantic Art Ensemble. And as the press release it…
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The Industrial Jazz Group (IJG) is a group based in Los Angeles with a taste for the very, very atypical. A critic once described the free jazz group as "cerebral, swing…
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Clear is the rerelease of a 1987 album by a group known as Conveniens. It contains some of the most atypical free jazz arrangements that I have heard to date, if …
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Music improvisation is a language unto itself as this multi-national unit proves that point to the highest degree. Recorded live at a venue in Cologne, Germany., this qu…
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Kinda contemporary, kinda free/avant garde, kind of a serious melting pot of styles often defying classification in many ways, Reptet has released its third album, C…
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Italian bassist Giogio Dini and legendary and prominent pianist Borah Bergman present us an exceptional memento with One More Time. Their counterpoint is shaped o…
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Ivan Valentini’s jazz quintet is an avant garde ensemble whose latest release, Light And Darkness is an active display of contrasting lyrical configurations and j…
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Modern day piano hero Matthew Shipp adds to his voluminous discography with this curiously interesting 2008 date, that at times, sketches out (less physical) parallels t…
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The avant garde trio of Junk Box have released their second effort, Cloudy Then Sunny on Libra Records. The trio comprises of pianist Satoko Fujii, her husband an…
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Freestyle jazz pianist/composer Satoko Fujii expresses on her website that for her ultimate goal, "I would love to make music that no one has heard before."Her la…
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The title of this CD might imply a sense of isolation or perhaps an introspective type of musical paradigm. On the contrary, Swiss bass trombonist Denis Beuret professes…
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In Seraphic Light three great musicians, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman and Ravi Coltrane get together as Saxophone Summit to further the legacy of the great jazz innovato…
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Producer Martin Davidson’s interesting liner notes detail the Spontaneous Music Ensemble’s post 1976 change in direction and the events surrounding these tracks that hav…
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Osorezan is not exactly a band per se, but a configuration of three musicians who routinely blur the distinctions between composition and improvisation, between rock, ja…
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This attractively packaged and priced, nine-CD set provides an outside looking in glimpse of multi-reed performer/composer and occasional pianist, Anthony Braxton’s comp…
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Per the liners, saxophonist Stephen Gauci has accelerated his group-led and sideman based career, largely since 2004 through the present. His new 2008 release with estim…
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