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Jean Menoux @JMenoux@mastodon.tetaneutral.net · Aug 07, 2026

Ça c'est bon ! Enfin, moi j'adore... Du free jazz fusion, on va dire. La description qu'ils font de leur album : "Une musique de guerre pour les tranchées numériques, un amalgame fragmenté de genres et de bruit maximaliste. C'est le son du point de rupture, le rejet et la régurgitation de la nature intrinsèquement limitante des genres." https://ilovenujazz.bandcamp.com/album/un-jazz #BandcampFriday #jazz #freeJazz #fusion #experimental

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teledyn 𓂀 @teledyn@mstdn.ca · Jul 28, 2026

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@thetonearm@social.lol Bill Dixon recounted a similar strategy in the film Imagine The Sound. He, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman and others into #FreeJazz were playing gigs in abandoned warehouses and cafés. Bill created a poster that merely implied these were already acclaimed famous artists, and at the bottom, a single line of praise from a Downbeat article, a rarity indeed at the time, but also a stamp of street cred. The poster was sent to all the jazz 'zines and radio hosts. They didn't rival the Beatles 🤣 but suddenly they were in demand and touring, and soon to be headliners.

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Ricardo Wang @RicardoWang@mastodon.social · Jul 24, 2026

#hotorcold #JukeboxFridayNight #freejazz #MatthewShipp #WiliamParker #gershwin #summertime The Matthew Shipp & William Parker Duo, "Summertime" https://matthewshipp.bandcamp.com/track/summertime

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Ricardo Wang @RicardoWang@mastodon.social · May 29, 2026

#allthatjazz #JukeboxFridayNight #sunra #arkestra #freejazz #SpaceJazz #spiritualjazz https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/track/god-is-more-than-love-can-ever-be

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · May 05, 2026

Nadir & Mahora by Mikołaj Trzaska / Clementine Gasser / Michael Zerang, released on Kilogram Records in 2009. FreeJazz Collective wrote: Every new CD by Polish saxophonist Mikołaj Trzaska is one to look forward to, and this one also delivers the goods, in the good company of Swiss cellist Clementine Gasser and American percussionist Michael Zerang. The album is recorded live at the "Alchemia" club in Krakow, Poland (where else would it be?). Trzaska is not only a wonderful instrumentalist, but his musical creativity and sense of sound is possibly his greatest asset. He knows how to be intriguing, inventive, expressive and sensitive at the same time, adventurous and accessible at the same time. And in Gasser and Zerang he really found two soulmates... https://www.freejazzblog.org/2009/05/mikoaj-trzaska-clementine-gasser.html https://kilogramrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nadir-mahora https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9WJY_sen1w&list=RDU9WJY_sen1w&start_radio=1 #MikołajTrzaska #ClementineGasser #MichaelZerang #FreeJazz #Music #Jazz #PolishJazz

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Apr 10, 2026

Bad and Beautiful is an album by the American jazz musician Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Recorded in 1961 in New York City at the Choreographers' Workshop, 414 W. 51st St., the album was the second to be recorded in New York by the Arkestra after leaving Chicago, but would remain unreleased until 1972. The album is considered to represent an important transition between the big band approach of the Chicago recordings, and the more 'outside' approach of Ra's smaller bands recorded later in the decade: - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI7x1K5A8cU&list=OLAK5uy_mLCD9Qg-GV3Q_4KSSuyWc58yaAxM_D7VQ&index=1 #SunRa #SpaceJazz #BigBand #FreeJazz #Music #Jazz #Arkestra

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Apr 02, 2026

Your Prayer is the second album by saxophonist Frank Wright. It was recorded in May 1967 in New York City and was released by ESP-Disk later that year. On the album, Wright is joined by saxophonist Arthur Jones, trumpeter Jacques Coursil, bassist Steve Tintweiss, and drummer Muhammad Ali Writing for Stereogum, Michael Nelson commented: "The other horns treat the melodies like fanfares, announcing Wright before he steps up for a fierce solo, but on pieces like 'No End' and particularly the nearly 13-minute 'Fire of Spirits,' everyone gets to have their say. Tintweiss's extended bass solo is actually a highlight of the disc, though the real secret weapon is Coursil's trumpet. Ali's drumming is frantic and ferocious throughout, wiping out the landscape like a forest fire." - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBCuFyIxJII #FrankWright #Jazz #FreeJazz #ESPDisk #Music #AthurJones #JacquesCoursil

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Apr 02, 2026

Mama Too Tight is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1967. The album contains tracks recorded by Shepp, trumpeter Tommy Turrentine, trombonists Grachan Moncur III and Roswell Rudd, tuba player Howard Johnson, clarinetist Perry Robinson, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Beaver Harris in August 1966. The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states: "Shepp had hit his stride here compositionally... lots of free blowing, angry bursts of energy, and shouts of pure revelry are balanced with Ellingtonian elegance and restraint that was considerable enough to let the lyric line float through and encourage more improvisation. This is Shepp at his level best." - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkg_fO9fhpk&list=RDJkg_fO9fhpk&start_radio=1 #ArchieShepp #TommyTurrentine, #GrachanMoncurIII #RoswellRudd #HowardJohnson #PerryRobinson #CharlieHaden #BeaverHarris #Jazz #FreeJazz #ImpulseRecords #Music

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 31, 2026

Free Action by Wolfgang Dauner , released on SABA in 1967. Review by Ken Dryden ...This adventurous session of originals by the pianist includes violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, tenor saxophonist/clarinetist Gerd Dudek, cellist Eberhard Weber, bassist Jürgen Karg, and two drummers, Mani Neumeier and Fred Braceful. Although Dauner is the leader, he treats himself as part of the ensemble and doesn't overly dominate the performances. The music alternates between accessible melodies reminiscent of Charles Mingus in spots, though there is often a quick transformation into much looser frameworks where chord structure and rhythm is quickly abandoned... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om7hOtsDOF0&list=RDOm7hOtsDOF0&start_radio=1 #WolfgangDauner #JeanLucPonty #ManiNeumeier #EberhardWeber #SABA #MusikProduktionSchwarzwald #GerdDudek #Jazz #FreeJazz #Music

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 28, 2026

Sunny Murray, also known as Sunny Murray Quintet, is an album by American free jazz drummer Sunny Murray, his second as a leader. It was recorded in New York City in January, 1966, and released on the ESP-Disk label. The album features Murray on drums along with alto saxophonists Byard Lancaster and Jack Graham, trumpeter Jacques Coursil, and bassist Alan Silva. Writing for All About Jazz, Jerry D'Souza commented: "The music is intense, but it is also passionate... [it] ferments, roils, and fascinates." - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc3byDMEv1k&list=RDHc3byDMEv1k&start_radio=1 #SunnyMurray #FreeJazz #Jazz #ESPDisk #ByardLancaster #AlanSilva #Music

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 06, 2026

New Africa is an album by American trombonist Grachan Moncur III recorded in 1969 and released on the BYG Actuel label in the same year. It features alto saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell (Art Ensemble of Chicago), pianist Dave Burrell, bassist Alan Silva and drummer Andrew Cyrille. Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp performs on the final track. A reviewer of Dusty Groove wrote: "..The session features Moncur hitting an Archie Shepp-ish, spiritual vein in his playing – recorded in Paris with a group that includes Shepp, Roscoe Mitchell, Dave Burrell, and Andrew Cyrille. Side one's mostly the long suite 'New Africa', but it also includes the great composition 'Space Spy' – and side two features the tracks 'When' and 'Exploration'. The whole album's incredible – much more soulful than some of Moncur's 'new thing' recordings, and equally compelling!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkU54RExUk0&list=RDgkU54RExUk0&start_radio=1 #GrachanMoncurIll #NewThing #FreeJazz #BYGActuel #Jazz #Trombone #Music #AlanSilva #RoscoeMitchell #ArchieShepp

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 02, 2026

New Grass is a 1968 album by jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler released on Impulse! Records. Fred Thomas, writing for Pitchfork, attempted to place the album in perspective, commenting: "This certainly wasn't jazz of any kind, but was too overstimulated and confused to pass for the Woodstock-generation rock'n'roll it was trying to emulate. What was this?... New Grass signaled the beginning of a descent into darkness for Ayler, one that saw him grasping at ideals of redemption and healing all the way down... Ayler's spiritual message... grew weirder and more intimate as he struggled to deliver it in a way that could be universally understood... Ayler's notion of popular music was so distanced from reality that it became its own self-contained universe." - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGNVtyjTfG4&list=RDeGNVtyjTfG4&start_radio=1 #AlbertAyler #Jazz #ImpulseRecords #Music #PrettyPurdie #FreeJazz #SpiritualJazz

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 02, 2026

Marzette Watts and Company, also known as Marzette and Company, is the debut album by saxophonist and composer Marzette Watts. It was recorded in December 1966 in New York City, and was released by ESP-Disk in 1968. John Garratt, writing for PopMatters, stated: "Marzette Watts was caught in the very middle of the civil unrest of 1960s America.... Watts struggled to belong somewhere. The music of Marzette Watts & Company reflects this turmoil and the list of soon-to-be-famous names accompanying him on the album suggests that misery loved company... Half these musicians have passed on, but their 'Backdrop for Urban Revolution' continues to stay in motion, thanks to gut-punching artifacts like this one." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEz1tQIgS0M&list=RDSEz1tQIgS0M&start_radio=1 #MarzetteWatts #ByardLancaster, #CliffordThornton #SonnySharrock #KarlBerger #HenryGrimes #FreeJazz #Jazz #ESPDisk #Music

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 01, 2026

The Forest and the Zoo is an album by Steve Lacy. It was released by ESP. The music comes from a concert in Argentina.[2] The quartet is made up of Lacy on soprano saxophone, Enrico Rava on trumpet, Johnny Dyani on bass, and Louis Moholo on drums. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 3½ stars stating "This is not normally considered an essential part of Lacy's very large catalog, but in the 21st century it does deserve to be heartily and critically reexamined. The cover painting by the late artist Bob Thompson makes the set worth owning simply for its beauty. ".[2] An All About Jazz reviewer concluded: "Rather than the liberating spirituality sought after in so much free jazz Lacy's unit remains light-hearted and whimsical, even as it soars above the ground below." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kIFRYjTAfw&list=RD-kIFRYjTAfw&start_radio=1 #SteveLacy #EnricoRava #JohnnyDyani #LouisMoholo #Jazz #FreeJazz #Music #ESPDisk

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 28, 2026

Right Now! is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label. It features McLean in a quartet with pianist Larry Willis, bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Clifford Jarvis. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and stated: "Altoist McLean was at the peak of his powers during this period and, inspired by the versatile rhythm section... a particularly strong example of Jackie McLean's unique inside/outside music of the 1960s." - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poz_xCQMRSU&list=RDpoz_xCQMRSU&start_radio=1 #JackieMcLean #Jazz #FreeJazz #BlueNote #Music

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 28, 2026

Sound is the debut album by free jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, recorded in 1966 and released on the Delmark label. It features performances by Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors, Maurice McIntyre, Lester Lashley and Alvin Fielder. ... Wadada Leo Smith commented: "It's no accident that Roscoe called that important piece of his Sound. Sound - not pitch - that's the difference." According to Mitchell, "[t]he musicians are free to make any sound they think will do, any sound that they hear at a particular time. That could be like somebody who felt like stomping on the floor... well, he would stomp on the floor..." - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLq2jx8oSbE&list=RDRLq2jx8oSbE&start_radio=1 #RoscoeMitchell #LesterBowie #MalachiFavors #ArtEnsembleofChicago #FreeJazz #Delmark #Music #Jazz #AlvinFielder #AACM

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 27, 2026

Heartplants by Gunter Hampel Quintet, released on SABA in 1965. Inconstant Sol wrote on their blog: In any discussion of what marks the starting point of European free jazz, this record might be high up on the list. We have posted Francois Tusques' "Free Jazz" in the past which was out in 1965 in France, certainly a turning point in the evolution of French jazz. This combo is German, however, and these are studio recordings from 1964, originally out on the Saba label.. Whether this is "free" jazz as commonly understood, is debatable imho, most of it is fairly melodic...One epithet that might fit, to the extent that these terms carry any determinate meaning, is "structural" jazz and the pieces here certainly are well organised and thought out. https://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2012/05/gunter-hampel-quntet-heartplants.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRoEpQH8FCE&list=OLAK5uy_lEQCgx9l45CyISTIlZRLClmBv-D-BwYN4 #GunterHampel #Vibraphone #JazzFlute #ManfredSchoof #AlexandervonSchlippenbach #BuschiNiebergall #PierreCourbois #Jazz #freeJAzz #Music #SABA #MPS

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 12, 2026

Love Cry is a 1968 album by jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, released on Impulse! Records in 1968. An article in Jazzwise stated: "The swirling psychedelic typography that adorns the cover of this often overlooked album from Ayler's discography hints at the direction he was heading at the time. Along with John Coltrane's Om and Archie Shepp’s The Magic of Ju Ju, this was experimental acid jazz at its most potent." - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvyBNTWzbLg&list=PL511fSPfMr9IGJCwwOTvIOQIfwWosgzlG&index=1 #AlbertAyler #FreeJazz #Jazz #ImpulseRecords #Music #AlanSilva #MilfordGraves

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 12, 2026

Levels and Degrees of Light is the debut album by Muhal Richard Abrams which was released on the Delmark label in 1968 and features performances of three of Abrams' compositions by Abrams, Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, Charles Clark, Gordon Emmanuel, Maurice McIntyre, Thurman Barker and Leonard Jones with vocals by Penelope Taylor and a poetry recitation by David Moore. The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3 stars stating "Levels and Degrees of Light would be a slightly difficult record to place in a blindfold test. It is certainly not untypical of the Chicago experimentation of the period, except it seems much less chaotic, much more responsive to European tradition" - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJQhyPpfgbk&list=OLAK5uy_mdvi-ywieFixdd1ZksyDHohn8Y6XWEZ6c&index=1 #MuhalRichardAbrams #AACM #Jazz #FreeJazz #Delmark #AnthonyBraxton #Music #LeroyJenkins

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Andi Chorley @ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 05, 2026

Canto Of Libra by Toshiyuki Miyama And His New Herd, released on Columbia in 1970. A really free-thinking set from the Toshiuki Miyama's New Herd -- an album-long suite of 5 tracks entitled "Canto Of Libra" -- penned by pianist Masahiko Satoh, who's also the lead soloist on the piece! The horn lines of the Herd are very criss-crossed here -- stating things boldly one moment, then breaking free in a flutter of colors and tones the next -- creating a nice balance between the album's gentler, more intimate moments, and some of the more dramatic passages of the piece. In a way, the record's almost like some of Gil Evans' most experimental work, taken up a few notches -- a well-conceived session that matches similar work from the European scene at the time. - Dusty Groove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4XGAoufyo4&list=RDd4XGAoufyo4&start_radio=1 #ToshiyukiMiyama #MasahikoSatoh #Jazz #JapaneseJazz #FreeJazz #Music

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