5 Free Jazz Albums To Wake You Up From Hibernation

This should be played at high volume, preferably in a residential area

I went to see my first free jazz concert in the early 1990s.

At the time, I was really into some of John Zorn’s and Bill Laswell’s projects, especially the groups Naked City and Painkiller, because I liked industrial and grindcore. A friend had also started drip-feeding me bebop and Blue Note classics, plus slipping me the odd mid-period Coltrane or Keit…