Free Improvisation

Leroy Jenkins' Driftwood - The Art Of Improvisation (2005)  Music

Posted by v3122 at April 15, 2021
Leroy Jenkins' Driftwood - The Art Of Improvisation (2005)

Leroy Jenkins' Driftwood - The Art Of Improvisation (2005)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Mutable Music, 17523-2 | ~ 182 or 100 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 24 Mb
Free Improvisation

~ Recorded on October 8, 2004 at a Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) concert by Jon Rosenberg. ~

Lisbon Improvisation Players - Spiritualized (2004)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Oct. 12, 2018
Lisbon Improvisation Players - Spiritualized (2004)

Lisbon Improvisation Players - Spiritualized (2004)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Clean Feed Records, cf 062 | ~ 267 or 139 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 42 Mb
Free Improvisation, Modern Jazz

When one thinks of free improvisations, it is often of high-energy barrages of sound or esoteric sound explorations. The Lisbon Improvisation Players, a quartet/quintet (cellist Ulrich Mitzlaff is on the final two of the six selections) whose best-known member is trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez, plays a different type of free jazz. Not shying away from melodies, tonality and rhythms, the group develops all three as the music progresses. The results are consistently fascinating as the musicians literally create music out of thin air…

Cecil Taylor - All the Notes (2004)  Music

Posted by v3122 at July 31, 2022
Cecil Taylor - All the Notes (2004)

Cecil Taylor - All the Notes (2004)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Cadence Jazz Records, 1169 | ~ 440 or 175 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 4.86 Mb
Free Jazz, Free Improvisation

Strange as it sounds, this is a somewhat typical date by avant-garde master Cecil Taylor. Recorded live at a Minneapolis concert, the performance consists of three improvisations (two of which are quite lengthy) that have Taylor in mostly thunderous form, leavened by a few brief lyrical moments. Bassist Dominic Duval and drummer Jackson Krall do their best to keep up with Taylor but there is no doubt who the leader is. Taylor's remarkable technique and endurance are in evidence, as is his ability to build on the most abstract ideas and somehow have it all make musical sense…

Jean Guillou - Biloulou Safari (Extended Edition) (1972/2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 7, 2021
Jean Guillou - Biloulou Safari (Extended Edition) (1972/2020)

Jean Guillou - Biloulou Safari (Extended Edition) (1972/2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 543 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 332 Mb | Scans included | 01:25:12
Classical, Free Improvisation | Label: Augure

A monumental 85-minute organ improvisation for the music for the film-documentary "Congo Safari" by Marcel Isy-Schwart.
Alexander von Schlippenbach - Slow Pieces For Aki: Piano Solo (2020)

Alexander von Schlippenbach - Slow Pieces For Aki: Piano Solo (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 170 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 120 Mb | 00:52:08
Piano Jazz, Free Improvisation | Label: Intakt Records

The pianist, two days in the studio, alone at the piano. A retreat in Zurich. Focus is on the now, the recording is running. Preparation time for the new compositions: about a year. Getting attuned to the music: a lifetime. Alexander von Schlippenbach, Slow Pieces For Aki, the emphasis being on the word “slow,” not on rediscovering slowness but discovering slowness anew - dedicated to his wife Aki Takase. with slow pieces, short pieces, compositions in which every single note demands the highest degree of attention, virtuosity shifts from the purely technical to the actual notes themselves, avoiding all irrel - evancies. Sounds that are able to glow in the dark and form themselves into star signs. it is not only Jazz and new Music that appear from far away, but also classical and romantic music, always reflected by the personality, the life and playing experience of Alexander von Schlippenbach. From my subjective point of view, dare i suggest, there is a certain serious lyricism. Slow, full of passion and filled with dedication to the music.
Kaoru Abe - Complete Tohoku Sessions 1971 (3CD) (Japan Edition) (2020)

Kaoru Abe - Complete Tohoku Sessions 1971 (3CD) (Japan Edition) (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 619 Mb | 03:13:49 | Covers
Free Improvisation | Country: Japan | Label: Nadja - KKJ 9003/5

Kaoru Abe (May 5, 1949 – September 9, 1978) was a Japanese avant-garde alto saxophonist. Self-taught at a young age, Abe performed with notables such as Motoharu Yoshizawa, Takehisa Kosugi, Yosuke Yamashita, Derek Bailey, and Milford Graves, although he generally performed solo. He was married to the author Izumi Suzuki, and was a cousin to singer Kyu Sakamoto. He was portrayed in Kōji Wakamatsu's film Endless Waltz by novelist and punk rock singer Kō Machida.

Fred Frith - Guitar Solos / Fifty (1974/2024)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Feb. 15, 2024
Fred Frith - Guitar Solos / Fifty (1974/2024)

Fred Frith - Guitar Solos / Fifty (1974/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 182 + 187 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 99 + 114 MB
37:49 + 37:32 | Jazz, Rock, Free Improvisation, Art Rock, Avantgarde, Experimental | Label: Week-End Records

Big tip! Lunching into 2024 after after a stellar 2023, Week-End Records delivers one of their most important offerings to date, the first vinyl reissue of Fred Frith’s seminal 1974 solo debut, “Guitar Solos”, in more than 40 years, marking the album’s 50th anniversary. A groundbreaking work in the field of avant-garde recordings that changed everything in its wake, incorporating a startling range of sonorities and approaches within constrained means, to celebrate its half-century mark, Frith has returned to its groundwork and recorded a brand new solo effort, “Fifty”, which now makes up an entire second LP of material for this very special release. Truly incredible and as historically important as records and reissues come.

Kent Carter String Trio - The Willisau Suites (1993)  Music

Posted by Designol at July 15, 2022
Kent Carter String Trio - The Willisau Suites (1993)

Kent Carter String Trio - The Willisau Suites (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 295 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 168 Mb
Label: ITM Pacific | # ITMP 970077 | Time: 01:01:29 | Scans included
Avant-Garde, Free Improvisation, Chamber Jazz

To hear bassist Kent Carter on this '84 recording is to hear the bassist in an entirely different context than anything his work with Steve Lacy and Paul Bley would belie. Always an artist with a penchant for strengthening an ensemble and its collective voice, Carter has comprised his ostensibly "solo" work of exercises and experiments documenting his search for a unified string conception in a group context. The use of overdubbed parts on everything from Ligeti-esque soundmasses to Eastern European folk explorations on his '74 Emanem recording, Beauvais Cathedral, point directly to Carter as something more than a sideman. Of late featuring Albrecht Maurer and Emmanuelle Roch on violin and viola, respectively, the Trio in this early incarnation consists of Carter, Portuguese violinist Carlos Zingaro (who has since become a mainstay of the Lisbon free music scene), and French violist Francois Dreno. One of the most noticeable things about this string configuration is the replacement of the usual cello with the bass (and Carter is an accomplished cellist as well).
Fred Frith & John Zorn - John Zorn 50th Birthday Celebration, Volume 5 (2004)

Fred Frith / John Zorn ‎- 50⁵ (2004)
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 290 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 126 Mb | Scans included
Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation | Label: Tzadik | # TZ 5005 | Time: 00:54:17

Working together since 1978, the partnership of Zorn and Frith is one of the most enduring musical partnerships in the downtown scene. Their periodic duo concerts have always been special events in themselves, but when it happens in celebration of Zorn's 50th Birthday, it takes on even greater meaning. Two masters of improvisation meet head to head in the redhot crucible of Tonic for an hour of telepathic communication and exploration, and you are there.

Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory - Far Side (2010)  Music

Posted by Designol at April 27, 2023
Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory - Far Side (2010)

Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory - Far Side (2010)
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 330 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 157 Mb
Label: ECM | # ECM 2087, 270 4801 | Time: 01:05:55 | Scans included
Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation, Modern Creative

Recorded live in Burghausen, Germany in 2007, Far Side features journeyman avant-garde saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and his ensemble the Note Factory performing in a concert. Joining Mitchell here are trumpeter Corey Wilkes, pianists Craig Taborn and Vijay Iyer, bassists Jaribu Shahid and Harrison Bankhead, and drummers Tani Tabbal and Vincent Davis. Beginning with the epic three-part 30-minute suite "Far Side/Cards/Far Side," the concert is an atmospheric and cinematic mix of Mitchell's longstanding musical touchstones including free jazz, European classical music, and modern creative group improvisation. Tracks such as the fragmented and atonal "Quintet 2007 A for Eight" and the similarly inclined "Trio Four for Eight" have the feel of composed classical music while evincing a more freely improvised aesthetic. This is often achieved by juxtaposing bowed cello and bass parts against improvised piano and sections where each musician seems to interject a melodic idea into an overall harmonic theme. There are moments of layered percussion, expansive atonal soundscapes, and fiery and combative moments between Mitchell and Wilkes as well as windy, drawn-out passages that tilt upon silence. If you're a hardcore Mitchell aficionado and/or fan of ECM's cerebral jazz catalog, Far Side would be a stellar addition to your library.