Jazz Articles about Greene/Silva/Friedman/Winter/Walker

Greene/Silva/Friedman/Winter/Walker: Free Form Improvisation Ensemble

by Derek Taylor
February 1, 2000

Calendar dates and the inceptions of musical styles don’t always mix. When was the actual birth of bebop? When was the definitive beginning of fusion? Specific dates are not readily applicable to these historic milestones mainly because musical revolutions rarely transpire in strictly linear progressions. In the absence of absolute dates recordings are often assigned the distinction of denoting when styles surfaced. The work of the Free Form Improvisation Ensemble (FFIE) gathered on this disc is widely regarded among those ...