Free Jazz: Best Sellers

Pianist Paul Bley's early ESP free jazz session combines the influence of the Jazz Composer's Guild with Ornette Coleman. On Barrage, [more]

Recorded in 1969, this is one of three albums to feature drummer Sunny Murray as a leader in 1969. Issued on the [more]

Lester Bowie's projects apart from the Art Ensemble of Chicago tread a high wire between challenging improvised music and R&B-pop. [more]

The previous Art Ensemble of Chicago ECM album Nice Guys vaulted them to the top of improvised music groups in the U.S. and [more]

Secrets of the Sun consists of sessions recorded by drummer Tommy "Bugs" Hunter in 1962 at the Choreographer's Workshop in [more]

Label: ECM

One of the New Thing's extremely few trombonists and a greatly underappreciated composer of tremendous evocative power, Grachan [more]

For even the astute early creative music lover, pianist Lowell Davidson is an obscure figure in the annals of jazz. [more]

Originally released in the 1970s as two separate LPs (Flaps and Opium/For Franz) on the tiny Pipe Records label, the sound on this single CD [more]

In his liner notes, producer Joe Boyd almost glibly claims that he doesn't know exactly why this session by pianist Chris [more]

Facing You is one of the most important recordings in contemporary jazz for several reasons, aside from being beautifully conceived and [more]

Despite the fact that pianist and composer Paul Bley had been a renowned and innovative jazzman for nearly 20 years, 1973 saw the release [more]