Trapeze Noël Mcghie

Pianist François Tusques was the first musician to introduce European jazz to Free music, as evidenced by his landmark, genre-defining album “Free Jazz” in 1965. Following the steps of Ornette Coleman’s legendary quartet, whose cornet player Don Cherry was soon to be his associate in Paris in the late 1960s, he developed a highly original blend of free improvisation (yet never relinquishing the heritage of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk), world-music and folklore, and protest songs. Over the years he has appeared with Barney Wilen, Sunny Murray, Jacques Coursil, Alan Silva and the like.