list your free jazz favorites

[frozen reeds]

My favourite free jazz album is New Dance by Anthony Ortega. Not many people bring it up but it is a beautiful record. It is one of several classics on the legendary (to me, anyway) Revelation Records label, and is now available on a Hat Hut CD.

[jon abbey]

My favourite free jazz album is New Dance by Anthony Ortega. Not many people bring it up but it is a beautiful record. It is one of several classics on the legendary (to me, anyway) Revelation Records label, and is now available on a Hat Hut CD.

Warne Marsh-Ne Plus Ultra is another great Revelation LP reissued by Hat.

[Jesse]

http://destination-out.com/?p=3887

[frozen reeds]

Warne Marsh-Ne Plus Ultra is another great Revelation LP reissued by Hat.

Absolutely. That is one of my favourite LPs full stop.

[dave quam]

Peevish - Makes a Difference

[beefbeefmeat]

woah lots of really good stuff posted thanks!

the warne marsh and anthony ortega albums on revelation records are fantastic!

Muhal Richard Abrams - levels and degrees of light was great. i should have enough records to check out until winter now

not really freejazz but i fond memories of listening to lonely woman by masayuki takayanagi when i first moved to the city... would like to find some freejazz with a similiar guitar style.

[jon abbey]

not really freejazz but i fond memories of listening to lonely woman by masayuki takayanagi when i first moved to the city... would like to find some freejazz with a similiar guitar style.

no one is like Takayanagi but maybe check Sonny Sharrock-Ask The Ages.

also, check some of Otomo's recent jazz releases, he studied under Takayanagi and that project is basically an implicit tribute to Takayanagi.

[fslmy]

anything with Rudiger Carl on tenor sax

[bedouin]

Jean-Luc Guionnet, Eric Brochard, Edward Perraud - [On]
Michel Doneda, Jack Wright, Tatsua Nakatani - From Between

Great, "but is it jazz"?

I thought the OP might want a way out of all the freejazz eventually.

[frozen reeds]

[Jacques Oger]

Don Cherry – Complete Communion,

great one !

[Damon_Smith]

beef,
here's a forum much better suited to address your inquiry: http://freejazz.org/

i spent many years amassing and enjoying the free jazz, if you want to move to a pm, i will suggest some stuff.

jg

I'd say this is my only real issue with IHM - that free jazz or EFI is some how not "cool" enough or unrelated to the key interests here where metal and pop music is totally OK.

I don't think it is easy to make an interesting free jazz record right now, but it does happen.

Right now I am really into early Joe McPhee albums, "Variations on a Blue Line", "Graphics", "Glasses", "Black Magic Man", etc.
I am also listening a lot to the Cecil Taylor Unit that made the "One too many Salty Swift & Not Goodbye" + "Live in the Black Forest".

[jon abbey]

I'd say this is my only real issue with IHM - that free jazz or EFI is some how not "cool" enough or unrelated to the key interests here where metal and pop music is totally OK.

did you not notice the 28 posts in between?

[Damon_Smith]

I'd say this is my only real issue with IHM - that free jazz or EFI is some how not "cool" enough or unrelated to the key interests here where metal and pop music is totally OK.

did you not notice the 28 posts in between?

I duly noted your posts - and it was not directed at you, sir. I am going to order the new Erst in a min. BTW!

[mono tony]

brotzmann sextet - nipples
moore/surgal/winant - piece for jetsun dolma
moore/surgal - lydia's moth/not me (lydia's moth is very pretty)
magic sound of fenn o'berg (1)
AMM - newfoundland (maybe not free jazz? don't really make a hard distinction on it)
butcher/hemingway - buffalo pearl. this album is monstrous

just came to bill dixon recently, the vade mecum stuff sounds quite fresh and odd to my ears.

[RFKorp]

also, check some of Otomo's recent jazz releases, he studied under Takayanagi and that project is basically an implicit tribute to Takayanagi.

I would say this implicit influence is worth noting in the case of Kazuo Imai as well.

anything with Rudiger Carl on tenor sax

Really? I've always preferred his accordion playing!

[Yii]

also, check some of Otomo's recent jazz releases, he studied under Takayanagi and that project is basically an implicit tribute to Takayanagi.

I would say this implicit influence is worth noting in the case of Kazuo Imai as well.

shin'ichi isohata is also a junior scholar of the takayanagi school, it's worth listening to his music.

[beefbeefmeat]

i listened to "solo works" and "how we will change" by kazuo imai... hearing these two recordings makes me really happy that i made this thread! i will have to check out his collaborations next.

the only shinichi isohata i could find was collaboration with otomo yoshihide that was pretty heavy on the improv side of things, but still good. i did watch him doing solo guitar on youtube and enjoyed it. where can i find some of his solo recordings?

[Dohol]

not really freejazz but i fond memories of listening to lonely woman by masayuki takayanagi when i first moved to the city... would like to find some freejazz with a similiar guitar style.

no one is like Takayanagi but maybe check Sonny Sharrock-Ask The Ages.

The only one who came close for a brief time was Ray Russell...this one in particular:



Has anyone mentioned Don Cherry's Mu?



A lot of wonderful stuff already mentioned...I wouldn't know where to begin...(lists ain't my bag... )

[Dohol]

yes...