Everything about the music, right down to the sheer volume of it, is the product of the moment... —Rhythm and tempo are both irrelevant to music of this kind.... Although the jazz vocabulary is ...

Karyōbin is a crucially important album in the history and development of freely improvised music. Originally studio-recorded in February 1968 and issued as an Island Records LP later that year, it ...

British saxophonist Trevor Watts was a cofounder of the revolutionary Spontaneous Music Ensemble in the 60s, a charter member of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra in the 70s, and guiding light of ...

Thirty-nine years ago trombonist Paul Rutherford wrote a pair of sprightly, ingratiating free-jazz themes for Challenge (reissued in 2001 by Emanem), the first album by the Spontaneous Music Ensemble.

Like more than a few other great sax players, Trevor Watts has a thing about drummers. He came onto the British free jazz scene in the ’60s alongside drummer John Stevens in the now-legendary ...

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey will play on November 21 as part of Duke Arts' "Max Roach at 100" program.