Free Jazz Blog
2022
Charles Mingus
The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s
Soul and Fire fusion roundup
Android Trio
Inclusion Principle
Plastic Dogs
Trio Subliminal
Carla Diratz & the Archers of Sorrow
Damon Smith/Balance Point Acoustics
“Art Should Try to Hover Above Our Humanity a Bit and Not Wallow in It” – An Interview with Damon Smith (part 1)
Damon Smith/Balance Point Acoustics Roundup, Part 1
Damon Smith/Balance Point Acoustics Roundup, Part 2
Cecil Taylor
The Complete, Legendary, Live Return at The Town Hall NYC November 4, 1973
2021
Umlaut Big Band
Mary’s Ideas: Umlaut Big Band plays Mary Lou Williams
Frode Gjerstad Trio +1
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society
Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival 1983
Anthony Braxton
Quartet (Standards) 2020
Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile
Snark Horse
أحمد [Ahmed]
Nights on Saturn (Communication)
Anthony Braxton
12 Comp (ZIM) 2017
PEK Solo, A Quartet of PEKs
The Strange Theory of Light & Matter
Alexander Hawkins
Togetherness Music
Conversation With Alexander Hawkins
Tributes and Homages
Dave Douglas – Dizzy Atmosphere
Martin Archer – Anthropology Band
Tropos – Axioms // 75AB
Edward “Kidd” Jordan, Joel Futterman, William Parker, Hamid Drake – A Tribute to Alvin Fielder, Live at Vision Festival XXIV
Dustin Laurenzi – Behold & Snaketime: The Music of Moondog
2020
Nick Dunston
Atlantic Extraction
Live At Threes
Susana Santos Silva
The Ocean Inside a Stone
The Same Is Always Different
Karl Evangelista with Alexander Hawkins, Louis Moholo-Moholo & Trevor Watts
Apura!
Dan Weiss Trio Plus 1
Utica Box
2019
Astral Ascending
Astral Spirits at Five Years
Amirtha Kidambi & Lea Bertucci
Phase Eclipse
Akiyama / Field / Vidic
Interpersonal Subjectivities
Tom Ward and Adam Fairhall
Susurrus
Madwort’s Menagerie
Madwort’s Menagerie
Sarah Gail Brand / Steve Beresford / John Edwards / Mark Sanders
All Will Be Said, All To Do Again
Whit Dickey/The Tao Quartets
Box of Light & Peace Planet
Matt Mitchell
Phalanx Ambassadors
Anthony Braxton
GTM (Syntax) 2017
Part 2: “2nd Species”
Evan Parker & Paul G. Smyth
Calenture and Light Leaks
The Dogs of Nile
Laura Cole
Enough
The Two Fridas
Corey Mwamba
(s)kin, volumes 1–12
2018
Fay Victor’s SoundNoiseFUNK
Wet Robots
Ben LaMar Gay
Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun
Dave Rempis / Matt Piet / Tim Daisy
Throw Tomatoes
Angelika Niescier Trio
The Berlin Concert
Yunohana Variations
Flower of Sulphur
Evil Genius
Experiments On Human Subjects
Vilhelm Bromanders Initiativ
Allt åt Alla
Steph Richards
Fullmoon
Trio Music (with Bert Turetzky and Vinny Golia)
Thaw (with Andrew Drury)
Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon
Leave No Trace: Live In St. Louis
Kid Millions & Sarah Bernstein
Tense Life
Dead Neanderthals
The Depths
Womb of God
Organ Donor
Anthony Braxton
Sextet (Parker) 1993
Sylvie Courvoisier Trio
D’Agala
Favourite Animals
Favourite Animals
John Russell & Paul G. Smyth
Ditch School
Lina Allemano’s Titanium Riot
Squish It!
Agustí Fernández
Celebration Ensemble
Willem Breuker Kollektief
Out of the Box
2017
Pan-Scan Ensemble
Air and Light and Time and Space
Noël Akchoté
All I Have To (solo series)
Noël Akchoté
Complete Recordings (Plays Anthony Braxton)
The Angelica Sanchez Trio
Float the Edge
Tiziano Tononi and Southbound
Trouble No More… All Men Are Brothers
Mostly Other People Do the Killing
Loafer’s Hollow
São Paulo Underground
Cantos Invisíveis
Orenda Records: 3 Years and Counting
In the Studio
Orenda Records: 3 Years and Counting
Live at the Blue Whale
Ken Vandermark
Momentum 1: Stone
Joana Gama, Luís Fernandes, Ricardo Jacinto
Harmonies
Feecho (Kaja Draksler and Onno Govaert)
Bums
Sylvaine Hélary, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Eve Risser, Mike Reed
The Sync
Darcy James Argue Secret Society
Real Enemies
Taylor Ho Bynum
Enter the Plustet
Eve Risser White Desert Orchestra
Les Deux Versants Se Regardent
2016
Paul G. Smyth & Chris Corsano
Psychic Armour
Daunik Lazro, Joëlle Léandre & George Lewis
Enfances à Dunois le 8 janvier 1984
Dave Douglas & Frank Woeste
Dada People
Susana Santos Silva, Lotte Anker, Sten Sandell, Torbjörn Zetterberg and Jon Fält
Life and Other Transient Storms
Alan Silva, Mette Rasmussen, Ståle Liavik Solberg
Free Electric Band
Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone
Sélébéyone
Dave Rempis / Joshua Abrams / Avreeayl Ra
Perihelion
Andrew Cyrille Quartet
The Declaration of Musical Independence
Lotte Anker/Fred Lonberg-Holm & Dave Jackson/Dirk Serries
Two Duos
FOR EXAMPLE: Workshop Freie Musik 1969–1978
Santos Silva/Wodrascka/Meaas Svendsen/Berre
Rasengan!
Dan Weiss
Sixteen: Drummers Suite
Brooklyn Blowhards
Brooklyn Blowhards
Trevor Taylor, Paun Dunmall, Phillip Gibbs
Circuit: Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
Dave Rempis, Elisabet Harnik, Michael Zerang
Wistfully
Craig Taborn, Christian McBride, Tyshawn Sorey
Flaga: Book of Angels, Volume 27
Nate Wooley & Ken Vandermark Duo
All Directions Home
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
a cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double Up
Old Locks and Irregular Verbs
Josh Sinton & Dominic Lash
Signal Gain
Dominic Lash
An Artist Deep Dive
John Zorn
Book of Angels, Volumes 24–26
The Bureau of Atomic Tourism
Hapax Legomena
Wadada Leo Smith & John Lindberg
Celestial Weather
Tyshawn Sorey, Julia Bullock, International Contemporary Ensemble
Josephine Baker: A Portrait
2015
Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, Mike Reed
Artifacts
Lee Rice Epstein 