Sometimes we value the new at the expense of the old.

Having a trawl through the dustier sections of my shelves...

Abdul Wadud - By Myself - Bisharra 101

Solo cello from Mr Wadud in 1977, which I remember being quite taken by when it first appeared. Holds up well - it's a pity that the planned follow-ups never appeared and that we seem to have lost Mr Wadud to the performing and recording world.

Anyone else care to recommend other buried treasures?

I've just finished upgrading a number of site features. Probably you won't notice many of these, but I'm sure many will be happy that the Recent Comments links finally work properly for comments sections that extend over a page. Please let us know about any bugs you find so that we can get them fixed quickly. Thanks for being part of the freejazz.org community!

Hi- some interesting duet stuff with Paul Rutherford/Paul Lovens from the early-ish days of the European improv scene up at Destination Out, www.destination-out.com, with some of my inchoate ramblings as an added bonus...

PB

http://peterbreslin.blogspot.com

Folks-

Hammer of Hathor (a project of Mark E Kaylor and Heather K Vergotis) will be travelling to Europe for several months at least in the spring. We're from Portland, Oregon.

We're currently booking some festivals and looking into any information we can find on venues etc, via online resources and from friends etc.

We play music that can and will go over in settings as varied as a cafe, a punk show in the basement of a house, someones living room, or an actual venue with a stage.

About time I did a bit more writing - so here are some comments on a couple of recent WP CDs...

The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield (Rai Trade - 2004)

A variation on Parker's mid-2000s performing quartet, adding Dave Burrell on piano, Sabir Mateen and Darryl Foster on reeds (replacing Rob Brown) and with Leena Conquest and Amiri Braka vocalising - Parker, Drake and Barnes remain.

hello everybody,

i'm organizing my annual 12 hour show on oct 27 (see recent announcements or calender). I'm do this in order to create some hoopla about free music and to reach out to more people. To let the media know that there exists something called free jazz & free music. this time it's rather big, with live performances and all, and happening at a big venue(Le Quai in Angers), which means more people, passers-buy, sunday afternoon strollers. it's free and open to public.

I'm Reannouncing the Cadvre Website on behalf of all the new freejazz.org users

CADAVRE EQUIS

A NEW INTERNATIONAL INTERACTIVE WEBSITE FOR
FREE MUSIC/EXPERIMENTAL WEB BASED MUSIC

Cadavre Esquis is an online collaboration started by useres of freejazz.org which include free improvisers/free jazz players and experimental musicians from around the world. But players or composers of any and every style may contribute a track.
Anyone can participate, it's free and easy.

Here's how it works:

Hi all!
Some "simple" questions, expecially for those who play free music:
1)what instrument(s) do you play?
2)where are you from?
3)is it easy in your place to find other players who want to play free?
4)What is more important in order to play free? The technique or the feeling?

My personal answers:

1) I have studied (a little) the double bass but I enjoy to play (somehow) the trumpet and flugelhorn.
2)I'm from Rome, Italy.
3)NO. I must play alone at home!

the original sampler thread has gone all messy, posts about the two volumes are all mixed up together, and not all the postings survived the transfer, so we're starting again here. the old thread can be read here.

if you're new to the site, the sampler is where the regular denizens of freejazz.org walk their walk: it pulls together tracks contributed by us, and presents them to the world www.freejazz.whi music.co.uk

I am currently a 4th year undergrad student at the New England Conservatory. I play alto saxophone and have studied with Joe Morris, Anthony Coleman, Allan Chase, and many other teachers at NEC. I'm very passionate about a wide variety of musics, and am especially interested in studying improvisation and composition. I love being in school and am looking for a place that is comparable to NEC, but offers some different perspectives. Being a big fan of Anthony Braxton, Wesleyan University is definitely interesting, but their graduate program doesn't really suit my main interests.