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Ekkehard Jost's Free Jazz (Part 1)

Ekkehard Jost's Free Jazz (Part 1)

John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor

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Mar 01, 2025
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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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