ReflectsMotion

Before British jazz-rock sank into lengthy repetition of the same, the most interesting music may have been that of Major Surgery. Prominent...

One lunchtime in late 1976, Derek Bailey and Steve Lacy performed a duet at the University of Strathclyde's Staff Club. That performance...

Reviewing “The Black Ark” in an earlier post, I typecast Earl Cross as playing “post-bop” in a later trio performance, recalling a 1980 Thi...

“ Sound” is one of those rare recordings that announces itself like Chtcheglov's “I come from the other land” - a self-contained, sel...

I have been intending to write next on Philip Cohran as a prime example of someone oriented towards a social function of music, based on li...

The records featured here to date have been at what might be the sedate end of expectations of 1960s free jazz – small groups working wit...

Paul Bley 's Improvising Artists Inc. glowed briefly in the mid 1970s, retrieving remarkable past moments from his own repertoire (th...