Free Jazz

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  1. earnmyturns

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    With free jazz not necessarily in style, but certainly in spirit. Down with traditional Western tuning :) Just came across this yesterday, not quite like anything else in my collection except for more than a whiff of later Ornette.

    https://pirecordings.com/albums/post-chromodal-out/
     
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    It just occurred to me that this thread is could be about free (as in beer) jazz, not free (as in freedom) jazz. I initially thought it was the latter, which I took to mean less structured, more random musically, as a new movement amongst jazz artists.

    (edited to show it's my confusion…)
     
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    What? It’s about the latter
     
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    This is awesome. Let me see if I can find any of Naked City stuff anywhere.
     
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    What happened to the "jazz nuts" forum? It seems to have evaporated without trace, discarding a lot of great jazz wisdom from you all :(
     
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    Dude, you’re absolutely right! I’ve gotten a bit tired of the NYC/ECM stuff and I finally got back into the Chicago jazz scene and rediscovered the common thread here between Kuzu and Vandermark 5: Dave Rempis. He has been kicking ass with his own label Aerophonic Records. I’ve purchased all of the Kuzu albums and went crazy buying CDs direct from him as well as on Bandcamp.

    I’m heavy into:
    Kuzu, Rempis/Abrams/Ra, Rempis Percussion Quartet, Rempis/Daisy Duo & Rempis/Rosaly Duo.

    Check it all out
    https://aerophonicrecords.com/

    Also this is another excellent review site
    https://www.freejazzblog.org
     
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    There's a particular state of mind I'm in sometimes that I could describe as extreme mental fatigue where I can't do anything or work on anything. It's related to a chronic illness. Even folk music is just too much. Interestingly, free jazz is the only music that my brain wants to hear in this state. Which seems like the opposite because its so chaotic and can be so grating. But it somehow makes sense to my brain in this weakened, exhausted state and no other music does. Rock music just sounds terrible.

    I would love some sort of scientific explanation as to what is happening in my brain either chemically or brain waves or whatever that is making this relationship work. So strange.

    Listening to Chris Corsano right now and it's just perfect.
     

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