Info:
Artist: Various
Album:  Free Jazz Essentials
Year: 2021
Genre: Jazz
Format/Quality: .mp3 320 kbps

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Beginning in the late ‘40s, a small group of jazz musicians sought freedom from the strictures of fixed rhythms and rigid chord changes. With his debut album in 1958, alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman made ignoring chord patterns a full-time practice, letting melodic improvisation roam freely. In the ‘60s, free jazz became more abstract and aggressive, with musicians like Albert Ayler and John Coltrane pursuing a deeply spiritual quest blending virtuosity with pure expression. The aesthetic exploded outside the U.S., allowing Europeans like Derek Bailey and Peter Brötzmann a platform to find a voice not indebted to American jazz tradition.

Tracklist:
01. Joe McPhee - Nation Time
02. Archie Shepp - Rufus
03. Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble - The Minstrel
04. Anna Högberg Attack - Attack
05. John Coltrane - Ascension (Edition I / Pt. 1)
06. Albert Ayler Trio - Ghosts: Variation 1
07. David Murray, Milford Graves - Stated With Peace
08. Ornette Coleman - Ramblin'
09. The Art Ensemble of Chicago - Nonaah
10. Sam Rivers - Bursts
11. Matthew Shipp Trio - Flying Saucer
12. YOSUKE YAMASHITA TRIO - Chiasma
13. Cecil Taylor - Steps
14. Nate Mcbride with Joe Morris, Curt Newton - Lowell's House
15. Nicole Mitchell - Vodou Spacetime Kettle
16. Amina Claudine Myers|Don Pate|Thurman Barker - The Clock
17. Fred Anderson Quartet - Saxoon
18. David S. Ware - Mikuro's Blues (Album Version)
19. New York Art Quartet - Sweet
20. Dave Holland Quartet - Four Winds
21. Sun Ra - The Magic City
22. Charlie Haden - El Quinto Regimento / Los Cuatro Generales / Viva La Quince Brigada
23. John Carter / Bobby Bradford - The Eye of the Storm
24. Schlippenbach Quartet - Hunting The Snake
25. John Coltrane - Jupiter
26. Jan Garbarek Quartet - Beast Of Kommodo
27. Hal Russell NRG Ensemble - Raining Violets
28. Anthony Braxton - 6-77AR-36K (Opus 23B)
29. Tomeka Reid - Woodlawn
30. Don Cherry - Complete Communion: Complete Communion/And Now/Golden Heart/Remembrance
31. Air - King Porter Stomp
32. Jimmy Giuffre - Yggdrasill (Album Version)
33. Lennie Tristano Sextet - Intuition
34. Anthony Ortega - New Dance I + II
35. The Peter Brötzmann Octet - Machine Gun
36. Archie Shepp, John Tchicai - Consequences
37. Pharoah Sanders, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Michael Mantler - Preview
38. The Thing - Viking
39. Fred Van Hove - Beter tien vogels in de lucht
40. Ornette Coleman - Mapa
41. Marilyn Crispell - On And Off The Beaten Track
42. Muhal Richard Abrams with Anthony Braxton, Leonard Jones, Steve Mccall, Henry Threadgill - Oqa
43. Steve Lacy Five, Oliver Johnson, Kent Carter, Steve Potts, Irene Aebi, Steve Lacy - Dreams
44. Frank Wright - Being (Instrumental)
45. Billy Hart|Don Pullen|Famoudou Don Moye|Fred Hopkins|Hamiet Bluiett - Happy Spirit
46. Cecil Taylor - Conquistador
47. Archie Shepp - Three For A Quarter, One For A Dime