Workshop of the Telescopes LHZ + H may be an ad-hoc formation or group…but it does feature many excellent European
Continue readingTag: free jazz
Shapes of Things
Nice team-up between mystical percussionist and performance artist Z’EV with the Portuguese musician and composer David Maranha on Obsidiana (SONORIS
Continue readingSo It Falls
Free avant-rock Dutch band The Ex have been making tours of Ethiopia for ten years. Their guitarist Terrie Ex has
Continue readingCosmic Beauties
Wadada Leo Smith is an Afro-American free jazz major player whose work is lamentably under-represented in my so-called collection, outside
Continue readingJazz is the new WWF
Arrived 20 December 2011, another envelope from the Helsinki jazz label TUM that impressed us quite favourably in January. Juhani
Continue readingBittern Predictions
The 1982 Trio – they simply call themselves 1982 – are three Norwegian players who play all-acoustic music with violin,
Continue readingOr TUM in New York
Big bundle of experimental jazz and improv albums arrived from the Finnish label TUM Records on 13 October 2011. All
Continue readingPerspective of the Symptom
We last heard from American composer Michael Gardiner when he collaborated with John Latartara on the fascinating and uncategorisable Beethoven
Continue readingExtended Holiday Blues
Outstanding free jazz and improvised composition on Universal Sounds (PORTER RECORDS PRCD-0453) from tenorman Odean Pope and a fabulous small
Continue readingLarger Astronomical Time
JD Parran, Window Spirits (MUTABLE 17539-2). Solo CD (bass sax, clarinet, and flutes) from this estimable veteran improviser and player
Continue reading