Ekkehard Jost's Free Jazz (Part 1)
John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor
For people not familiar with free jazz, the music might feel chaotic, unstructured, even hostile.
That’s why the genre is often subject to rejection, ridicule and misunderstanding.
When I discovered free jazz, I was into industrial, metal and grindcore – but this music sounded even more radical. It felt like an epiphany.
The “New Thing”, as it was referred…
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