free-jazz

Led Bib Bring Your Own Led Bib crossed into the mainstream for their combination of free-jazz unpredictability and rock energy, and this album subjects the high-energy quintet's seven-year evolution to a concise distillation that touches on all its eclectic sources without dwelling at length on any of them.

F&M playlist 2011

Bassist Charlie Haden spent the early part of his career as a free-jazz firebrand, playing everything but conventional melody and harmony.

Getting Down to Brass Tacks Will Friedwald 2011

Even more than Blakey, who tended to stick with the Messengers' hard-bop format, Roach was a restless experimenter who was open to many forms of postmodern experimentation, including team-ups with such free-jazz avatars as Archie Shepp, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor.

The Jazz Scene: Rhythm Kings and the Chairman of the Board Will Friedwald 2012

As of press time, I've received word of at least four benefit shows for disaster relief, starting this weekend at the Abrons Arts Center, which hosts a roster of free-jazz headliners as well as Norah Jones, and at Iridium, hosted by pianist Junko Onishi.

Getting Down, Giving Back Will Friedwald 2011

The world premiere of a new free-jazz opera by George Herms, known as one of the founders of California assemblage and an influential figure of the Beat generation.

Bettina Korek: PLAN ForYourArt: February 3-9 Bettina Korek 2011

Coltrane's "Ascension" has been celebrated as the apex of the free-jazz movement and derided as proof of its excesses.

Emancipation Proclamations (the Musical Kind) Larry Blumenfeld 2011

After kicking off with a variety of raspy, spacey guitar sounds, the track "Nels" settles into a bit of modal funk with a wah-wah, invoking the free-jazz of Sharrock as well as Miles Davis's "A Tribute to Jack Johnson."

Four Rock Nomads Unite for a Fleeting Tune Jim Fusilli 2010

So I tried to reconnect people who are supposed to hate each other, joining up people from bebop, free-jazz, pop backgrounds, electronics, jazz-rock.

London jazz festival: the grand nationals John Fordham 2010

As I lay on my back, swaying slightly, Mr. di Suvero ran mallets over the metal keys, playing in a free-jazz style that shares much in common with his art.

America's Great Man of Steel Marc Myers 2011

Coltrane's "Ascension" has been celebrated as the apex of the free-jazz movement and derided as proof of its excesses.

Emancipation Proclamations (the Musical Kind) Larry Blumenfeld 2011