We’re talking free jazz, an experiment in improvisational music that captivated the world’s greatest jazz musicians in the ...

After the great success of "Elevator Music" you cannot miss the new Christmas Playlist of Ambient Jazz Songs! The elevator ...

Caroling and choirs abound during the holiday season in New Orleans, but so do less traditional performances — including a night of holiday music dedicated to free-jazz icon Albert Ayler and a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The tunes carried over to downtown Springfield for the last September Soul weekend. In conjunction with MIFA’s presentation, Dewey’s Jazz Lounge hosted a free jazz music ...

For ezz-thetics' revisited series' fourth Ornette Coleman album, the label has ventured back further than any of its previous Coleman albums, to New York City in December 1960 and January 1961.

There is a story Detroit Jazz Festival President and Artistic Director Chris Collins loves to tell about an intimate conversation he had with Gretchen Valade. Valade had rescued the festival from the ...

Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955) may have left this earth at the young age of 34, but his contribution to music history was much more than a grace note. Every time a horn player attempts to play it ...

This is FRESH AIR. In the 1970s, influential musicians such as Ornette Coleman began combining free jazz and electric funk. Three notable vets of free funk bands periodically team up to get ...