Articles by Torsten Muller

Paul Rutherford: An Homage

by Torsten Muller
September 16, 2007

It was 1975. I was a teenager at my parent's house on the lonely moors of Northern Germany, feverishly opening a package from FMP Records in Berlin, my lifeline to the world of free jazz and improvised music that I had recently discovered. The package contained one LP, Paul Rutherford's Gentle Harm of the Bourgeoisie. I rushed to my room to put this object of desire, a record of solo trombone music, about which I had been speculating for weeks ...