Art Ensemble of Chicago

Fly in the Ointment

Improv meets vaudeville with Spanish Fly

Harmonic Convergences

The melodic dissections and rhythmic ricochets of Peter Apfelbaum

Anthony Braxton

The Complete Arista Recordings Of Anthony Braxton (Mosaic)

Art Ensemble of Chicago

Tribute to Lester

The Meeting (Pi)

Kind of Code Blue

Is jazz dead? Local experts search for signs of life.

Brigitte Fontaine & Areski

L'Incendie (Get Back)

Sonic Revival

To save a floundering local avant-jazz scene, the Alliance of Emerging Creative Artists is bringing back the old-fashioned school of mentoring

Riff Raff

Jim Ryan's experimental jazz and the Boom Boom Room mural controversy part II

Hear This

Equal Interest

Into the Maelstrom

The Rova Saxophone Quartet once again honors the freewheeling spirit of Bay Area jazz improvisers

Playing by Ear

Bruce Ackley and the art of listening

Hear This

Bruce Ackley and the art of listening

Recordings

Bruce Ackley and the art of listening

Out There

A guide to the explosive new avant-jazz scene

Letters

A guide to the explosive new avant-jazz scene

What Wynton Doesn't Hear

Lester Bowie explains

The Essence of Jazz

Henry Threadgill's anti-purity

Yoshi’s steps up its game with free-jazz fest

Henry Threadgill's anti-purity