Liudas Mockūnas / Samuel Blaser / Marc Ducret

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Liudas Mockūnas / Samuel Blaser / Marc Ducret: Twisted Summer

by Mark Corroto
May 21, 2026

All of modern jazz and improvised music owes a debt to Jimmy Giuffre (1921--2008). A quiet revolutionary, Giuffre helped reshape the language of jazz in ways that many musicians now take for granted. His solo recordings anticipated those of Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell, while his early experiments without a rhythm section, common practice today, were once considered radical. Even his approach to free jazz set him apart. Where contemporaries like John Coltrane and Albert Ayler explored the music's most ...