On Wednesday, Nov. 11, The Music Studio hosted a performance of spontaneous musical works for piano, saxophone and bass. Local pianist, Ron Stabinsky, performed a solo free improvisation using ...

Pioneered in the 1950s by musicians breaking the rules of jazz and composition, free improvisation is still as difficult – and potentially transcendent – as it ever was. A Guardian documentary takes ...

When I, a comedian currently fashionable in broadsheets, and an uncomprehending fan of Free Improvisation, was invited to publicise and programme Freehouse, the Cheltenham jazz festival’s new ...

In Derek Bailey's words, improv is "playing without memory." In Britain, in the mid-60s, free improvisation (often just called "improv") developed out of free jazz, eventually becoming a separate and ...

‘What we have here… is a book full of HOT free music, RED HOT!’ Swedish saxophone hero and self-confessed ‘discaholic’ Mats Gustafsson can always be relied on for an effusive quote and his foreword to ...

Spring Garden Music began in 1982 as the name given to a bunch of raucous improvisers from Philadelphia. Some of these musicians lived in a house on Spring Garden Street, that was owned by a ...

Norwegian saxophonist and opera singer Håkon Kornstad brings his unique blend of jazz and classical for a show at Mondavi's ...