Free Jazz CDs: Best Sellers

Spiky and challenging but only rarely moving into the rhythmic and tonal fearlessness of some of his more outside work, Dave Burrell's [more]

One of the great free jazz tenor saxophonists, Frank Wright was a high-energy player with a large tone and a style that made him often sound [more]

In 2006, the revived ESP label issued this 1998 live set from the quartet New Ghost. The eccentric music is at its most vital when it involves free ensemble-oriented playing as on

Kwanza is a curious Archie Shepp recording. Released in 1969 on Impulse, it features cuts recorded between September 1968 and August 1969 [more]

John Coltrane presents several challenges to anyone trying to compile "an introductory collection" of his recordings, as annotator Ashley [more]

Kahil El'Zabar's quartet is an all-star group with enormous potential. The [more]

Given the title and dedication of the Vandermark 5's 2006 issue A Discontinuous Line, with two of its pieces being dedicated to [more]

This volume in Atavistic's Unheard Music Series is a smoking transitional gig from the Steve Lacy Quintet live in [more]