By Martin Schray Berlin in a not too distant future after the musical revolution: Three months ago Justin Bieber was arrested at the Russian border where he was trying to ask for musical exile – he was on the run. American Idol has...

By Stef Last year we reviewed the fist volume of Eddie Prévost's "Meeting With Remarkable Saxophonists", called "All Told", with Evan Parker on sax and John Edwards on bass. We never highlighted the other two albums in the series : ...

Good free jazz and free music DVDs are hard to find, so it's always a kind of an amazing fact when a dedicated label is created that does only that : release DVDs of "contemporary jazz and free improvisation". The label is called Panrec ...

Reviewed by Joe Great to see a Tim Daisy album, one of the best drummers around (in my humble opinion). This is not the first record that Tim has produced under his name, if I understand correctly it's number seven in the Relay Record...

Bill Frisell - Silent Comedy (Tzadic, 2013) **** By Paul Acquaro Though not his first solo album, Silent Comedy seems to be a pretty radical departure for guitarist Bill Frisell. While some of his recent recordings like the subtle an...

Reviewed by Joe I remember reading Stef's enthusiastic review of Kris's Rye Eclipse. It's one of the great classics in the free-composed genre, an album more than worth checking out if you don't know it. Here she is again in large f...

By Paolo Casertano In the rankings (let’s say in the first twenty positions) of the concerts I’ve been attending in my life there is for sure the night, some years ago, when I had the honour and the luck to listen to a solo performanc...

By Martin Schray At the beginning of “A World of Sound“, a short film by the David Lynch Foundation about the late great David S. Ware, Ware says: “You know, I am not interested in chord changes … playing chord changes .. I don’t need...

By Martin Schray For an article in The Wire in December 2012 David Keenan asked Peter Brötzmann about his interest in world music. Brötzmann looked at him like he was “about to puke up his meat balls” and gagged. He said that he did n...

By Paul Acquaro Black Motor, a tough minded sax, bass and drum trio, and trumpeter Verneri Pohjola, both from Finland, are new discoveries for me. Rubidium may mark their first release together, but having not heard their previo...