Here's a strange thought: Free music downloads available legally are better than what the masses are stealing. Either allows jazz fans to collect a diverse library large enough to listen to ...

Freeform radio station WFMU-- the home of all things delightfully "out there" -- has unearthed a curious recording that may change how folks look at the history of free jazz. In 1957, French-born ...

Refused named their classic 1998 album The Shape of Punk to Come after Ornette Coleman’s 1959 free jazz classic The Shape of ...

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 ...

"For the avant-garde, it was liberating. It just changed everything." Submarine Ent. has debuted the doc trailer for Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz, about the exciting free jazz movement of the ...

Syracuse Jazz Fest, the northeast’s largest free jazz festival, successfully returned in 2022 after a four-year hiatus. An expanded, five-day lineup this year brought more than 20,000 people to ...

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 ...

DETROIT - This is the largest free event of its kind in the entire world. The music lineup has been revealed for the 46th Detroit Jazz Festival. The event takes place from Friday, August 29 through ...

First published in 1977, journalist, author and black music historian Val Wilmer's As Serious As Your Life... makes a welcome print return at a time when jazz excites perhaps greater and more ...