Your Free Jazz is unstoppable
Free Jazz was a step forward from the Be-Bop and Hard Bop in a sense of freeing soloist of chord changes limitations and, at the same time, step backward in a sense of bringing back Dixieland mentality in the form of collective improvisation.
It's all started in 1949 from release by Lennie Tristano' Intuition
and solidified in 1959 with the release of Ornette Coleman' Shape of Jazz to Come.
The music of Free Jazz, for the most part, is very intense and emotional.
Currently, besides Europe and Japan, there is a very active Free Jazz scene in New York and Chicago.
Free Jazz
- Ornette Coleman Double Quartet Free Jazz A Collective Improvisation Atlantic. 1960 release that gave the name Free Jazz to the the whole genre.
Live at the Village Vanguard
- John Coltrane Live At The Village Vanguard Impulse/Verve, 1962. An incandescent "India" is here.
Agharta
- Miles Davis Sony. February 1st, 1975, Miles Davis played Osaka Festival Hall, an afternoon concert recording became known as Agharta.
Shape of Jazz to Come
- Ornette Coleman on Atlantic, 1959. Arguably, the greatest jazz recording ever made.
Beware the engaging Free Jazz..
Song X
- Pat Metheny, Ornette Coleman Song X Nonesuch/Geffen. With Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette.
Live at Village Vanguard Again
- John Coltrane Impulse, 1966 recording.
Love Cry
- Albert Ayler Impulse/GRP, 1971.
Emergency
- Tony Williams Lifetime Verve/Polygram. Original Release: 1969
Last Date
- Eric Dolphy Fontana/Polygram. Recorded in Hilversum, Holland on June 2, 1964 - twenty seven days before Dolphy's death.
Pithecanthropus Erectus
- Charles Mingus on Atlantic / Wea.
Our Man in Jazz
- Sonny Rollins BMG/RCA.
Sign of Four
- Derek Bailey, Pat Metheny, Gregg Bendian, Paul Wertico Knitting Factory. Original Release: May 20, 1997.
Inflated Tear
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk on Atlantic/Rhino/Wea
Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
- Sun Ra on Savoy.
Live In Japan
- John Coltrane Impulse/GRP. Recorded on July 1966 - exactly one year before Coltrane's death.
Ira & Igor
- OGOGO - III Records
At The Golden Circle
- Ornette Coleman Trio recorded in Stokholm - Emd/Blue Note.
Liberation Music Orchestra
- Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra Impulse/GRP.
Fire Music
- Archie Shepp Impulse/Universal, 1965 recording.
Unit Structures
- Cecil Taylor on Blue Note. Avant-Garde classic from 1966.
Out to Lunch
- Eric Dolphy on Blue Note. It is his last studio recording. He passed away in Germany four months later at the age of 36.
Ascension
- John Coltrane on Impulse/Verve.
Legendary Hasaan / Drums Unlimited
- Max Roach on Atlantic/Collectables, featuring Haasan, the pianist from Philly.
Who do you think is more likely to go out?
Outside players in jazz idiom:
AMMMusic, Asphalt, Tom Abbs, Fred Anderson, Kaoru Abe
Anthony Braxton, Derek Bailey, Peter Brφtzmann, Conny Bauer, Han Bennink, William Byrd, David Baker, Paul Bley
Vladimir Chekasin, Don Cherry
Bill Dixon, Ernest Dawkins, Hamid Drake
Jimmy Giuffre Trio (with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow), Globe Unity Orchestra, Vyacheslav Ganelin
Chico Hamilton, Joe Harriott, Fred Van Hove
Ronald Shannon Jackson, Sheila Jordan
Jeanne Lee
Jackie McLean, Joe Morris, Nicole Mitchell
OGOGO
Evan Parker, William Parker
Roof, Matana Roberts
John Stevens, Matthew Shipp, Sonny Sharrock, Linda Sharrock, Chris Speed, Karl E. H. Seigfried, Tomasz Stanko, Zbigniew Seifert
William Billy Taylor, Chad Taylor, Assif Tsahar, Vladimir Tarasov, Masayuki Takayanagi
James Blood Ulmer
Ken Vandermark
David S. Ware, Patty Waters
Thou shalt not punch mythical Avant-Garde of OGOGO.
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