Free Jazz

by Fran莽ois Tusques

Free Jazz cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Mouloudji
  • Country: France
  • Length: 36:09
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Widely acknowledged as the very first entirely free jazz album recorded in Europe, pianist Fran莽ois Tusques gathers a revolutionary ensemble to shatter the conventions of American bebop. The music entirely abandons traditional harmonic centers, engaging in fierce, spontaneous collective improvisation that reflects the growing avant-garde and political tensions in 1960s France. It is a massive, defining milestone for European experimental music.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, instrumental, avant-garde, acoustic, saxophone, French language, relentless

Tracklist

  1. Description Automatique D'Un Paysage D茅sol茅 (12:49)
  2. Souvenir De L'Oiseau (5:39)
  3. Description Automatique D'Un Paysage D茅sol茅 (Autre Version) (5:11)
  4. La Tour Saint-Jacques (12:30)

Credits

  • Fran莽ois Tusques - primary artist, composed by, piano
  • Michel Portal - bass clarinet
  • Beb Guerin - contrabass
  • Charles Saudrais - percussion
  • Fran莽ois Jeanneau - saxophone, flute
  • Bernard Vitet - trumpet

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