Free Jazz

Recorded in a single continuous take, 'Free Jazz' is a foundational work of the avant-garde built around the concept of collective improvisation. The album features a "double quartet" format, with two distinct rhythm-and-horn sections panned to separate stereo channels, creating a dense, polyrhythmic, and often cacophonous soundscape. Brief, dissonant, pre-composed fanfares serve as the only structural guideposts, launching extended and interactive solos from a lineup that includes Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Don Cherry, and Coleman himself, forever naming and defining the nascent free jazz movement.