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Film Review: “Fire Music: A History of the Free Jazz Revolution” — Informative but Incomplete

What’s on the screen rings true, but Fire Music falls short of being fair to history.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Featured, Film, Jazz, Review Tagged: documenary, Fire Music, Fire Music: A History of the Free Jazz Revolution, free jazz, Tom Surgal

Jazz CD Review: “Seraphic Light” [Live At Tufts University]

The players are striking out into the unknown: you may find the journey inspiring and you may sometimes find yourself lost in the woods.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Daniel Carter, free jazz, Matthew Shipp, Steve Provizer, Tufts University, William Parker

Music Remembrance: Ornette Coleman — The Gentle Iconoclast

Ornette Coleman’s music was avant-garde but, perhaps unconsciously, his notion of art as free lyrical adventure was deeply American.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Billy Higgins, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, free jazz, Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come

Book Review: “Outside Music, Inside Voices” — Illuminating Conversations about Creating Jazz

Jazz fans with open ears should rush to this book: so should anyone interested in the creative process, its rewards as well as its challenges.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: avant-garde jazz, Baikida Carroll, free jazz, Garrison Fewell, Henry Threadgill, Marilyn Crispell, Milford Graves, Oliver Lake, Outside Music Inside Voices, Wadada Leo Smith

Jazz Review: British Saxophonist Evan Parker Brings his Brand of Innovation to Boston

Free and fluid as it was, the set made memorable sense to the packed crowd at the Lily Pad.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: England, Evan Parker, free jazz, Joe Morris, Lily Pad, Nate Wooley, New England Conservatory

Album Review: B L A C K I E — Conflating the Barbaric and the Beautiful

Imagine Yourself in a Free and Natural World finds B L A C K I E reaching an ambitious artistic high, delivering potent pieces of jazzy discord that impressively conflate the barbaric and the beautiful.

By: Austen Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: B L A C K I E, Folk, free jazz, hardcore punk, harsh noise, Hip Hop, Imagine Yourself in a Free and Natural World, Michael LaCour

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