Category Archives: free improv

evan parker / derek bailey / han bennink | the topography of the lungs (1970)

Posted on April 13, 2015 by

The Topography of the Lungs is one of the crucial early documents of European free improvisation. Recorded in July 1970, this lively, inventive trio record introduced a decade in which European free jazz would increasingly splinter from its American progenitors, … Continue reading →

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musica elettronica viva | friday (1969)

Posted on March 17, 2015 by

Musica Elettronica Viva was an odd and amorphous group whose vision of collective free improvisation, like that of their British peers AMM, presaged many of the developments of avant music in the ’70s and beyond. The group’s membership shifted constantly … Continue reading →

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spontaneous music ensemble | karyobin (1968)

Posted on March 5, 2015 by

The Spontaneous Music Ensemble was one of the first flowerings of a fertile British improvised music scene that would flourish through the ’70s and beyond. The SME was a loose collective centered around drummer John Stevens and, in its first … Continue reading →

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amm | ammmusic (1966)

Posted on February 27, 2015 by

This extraordinary debut has become a legend, and with good reason. The importance of AMMMusic is difficult to overstate, particularly when considered as a prescient forerunner to certain strains of electroacoustic improvisation that would develop at the end of the … Continue reading →

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