Free Jazz

i can only listen to so much free jazz in one shot. i feel fatigued after listening to something like Ascensions or something... it's great though, and i understand the artists' intentions.

Yukorin wrote:   Is there anything better? I nearly cut my right hand off chopping the celery for the Mrs.   Give me squonk!

Edited by Pnoom! - May 06 2008 at 16:10

Listen to spiritual unity by Albert Ayler, but only do so if you already are a jazz listener, free jazz is a very difficult genre to appreciate, but think about it this way, if Coltrane played free jazz, it can't be that bad.

sure why not, when the mood strikes Art Ensemble of Chicago is the flavor I usually prefer, also the battery of Cecil Taylor softens my gray matter for the better!  

Yes! Lovely Haco! How come you never introduced me to her? I had to find her all by myself.

You don't like After Dinner (Don't know the solostuff)? Being an artist and all, I guess I'm too pretentious myself to notice.

What's give me sqounk? And what were you playing when you nearly chopped you're hand off?

You'll be in for a shock if you haven't heard Herbie Mann Stone Flute with Sonny Sharrock. Got the vinyl for 2.50$ on ebay! Quite free and supersublime.



How do you like Sharrock's albums with his screaming wife? Black Woman  is currently on my desert island list.

You're way ahead of me with this free stuff. Don't really know any of those, except for a couple of random tracks by Arthur, including the fantastic Ancestor.

I haven't even seen the Anal Magic-flick from '94. 

A really awesome free jazz blog here, including downloadable interviews and presentations of new releases:

http://www.tfjhp.blogspot.com/

And I really don't agree that free jazz is a difficult genre to appreciate (ok, maybe with the exception of the really extreme stuff like Borbetomagus - which I guess is more like acoustic Noise than free jazz - or some Zorn)

Is this thread also meant to include non-jazz based free impro, like the late, great Derek Bailey or the AMM?

 

Miles never got entirely sucked into that free jazz abyss....Miles was really into form, space, texture.....I know there are some moments from the overly ripe period of his post-quintet period, albums like Agatha and Pangea or on some looser jams around the time of On the Corner, but I feel that was more he and the band spreading out a "scorched Earth" atmosphere, that Miles was intending to communicate through chaos a message of where he felt society/music/politics was heading....it really is heavy stuff, as tough to listen to at times as the Ayler, late Coltrane, Coleman records of the sixties.