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Free Jazz
KharBevNor:
FREE JAZZ ISN'T FREE!
I am a music republican.
JimmyJazz:
I would reccomend some Charles Mingus. Whilest not all of his material is free jazz, some of it is the best I've ever heard. His albums Pithecanthropus Erectus, The Clown, and Tijuana Moods are the best examples of this I think.
greenMonkey:
Someone posted Peter Broctmann Octet's Machine Gun in the sendspace thread a really long time ago. I snagged it, and I still can't manage to get through the first track. I need to spend some more time with it.
Ornette Coleman though. Seriously. "Lonely Woman" is an absolutely brilliant song. Some other (current) groups that I have enjoyed are Shining and Chicago Underground Duo (though neither are necessarily free jazz in the traditional sense (is there a traditional sense of free jazz?)).
Shadows Collide:
Albert Ayler's Spirits Rejoice is the perfect free jazz record of what I've heard. Apart from Ornette Coleman's stuff, you must own Coltrane's latter avant-garde period albums, especially the beautiful "Ascension".
My personal favorite free jazz album has to be Pharaoh Sanders' "Karma", so I suggest you track that down.
Joseph:
Can't believe I forgot Sanders. He played with Sun Ra and Coltrane on various outings and made some incredible records of his own. Coleman refered to him as the greatest tenor player ever, if I recall. Karma is a perfect album.
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