For fans, free jazz is the most beautiful and liberatory music there is, yet the genre can be a step too far for many. With its unconventional approach to tonality, harmony and rhythm, free jazz can ...

Two recent releases from the free jazz universe of music celebrate two of the greatest saxophone icons of the 20th century, Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders. I was first exposed to free jazz at a ...

Detroit is throwing the world's biggest free jazz party for the 46th time this Labor Day weekend, with four stages at Hart Plaza, Cadillac Square and the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center at Wayne ...

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) will present a series of free jazz concerts in Newark from February to May 2026 ...

The MO Jazz Music Festival, which alights upon Rose Park next weekend, doesn't necessarily offer free jazz of the adventurous, Ornette Coleman variety. But the one-day outdoor affair celebrates jazz, ...

Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955) may have left this earth at the young age of 34, but his contribution to music history was much more than a grace note. Every time a horn player attempts to play it ...