Results for "Free Jazz"

Ari Lahdekorpi

Ari Lahdekorpi is a Canadian jazz/blues guitarist and composer based in Chilliwack, BC . He was born in Parkano, Finland but has spent most of his life in Canada. Ari’s musical journey began as a back-up musician for a traveling faith healer. He has since worked as a staff musician for leading recording studios, played sideman for artists ranging in style from pop to jazz through to country music. In the mid-eighties Ari began a solo recording career and has since recorded 12 albums as leader. He has worked as a composer for film and television, most notably on the award winning NFB feature film, Letters from Karelia

Light Star Guiding

I conceived this idea, which had been formulating for a considerable amount of time, as an opposition to all the acoustic projects I am currently often based in, and also as a return to my roots - when I started playing, my first group was a very electric, post punk noise-jazz kind of sounding outfit, and I wanted to return some way to this idea but with many more years of experience to draw upon.Composition and Improvisation are parallel in this group and they should both feed each into each other.The use of sustained rhythm as opposed to “jazz” drum patterns, with Bass forms backbone that everything else can hang on.Repetition and trance are as important as melody and harmony as are the use of extreme techniques from both electric guitar and saxophone, but, we never forget about the beauty of music and the ability of great music to transport both band and listeners, this is our primary goal hence our name “Light Star Guiding”.

Das Ende der Liebe

Active since: 2014

Das Ende der Liebe (DEDL) is an improvising quartet from Köln/Berlin: Andreas Völk (guitar, voice, live beats and sound processing), Laurenz Gemmer (Yamaha CP70, Ableton Live), Kenn Hartwig (bass, Nintendo Game Boy) and Thomas Sauerborn (drums, synthesizer). "Trip Music" is how the quartet describes itself, after one of their album titles. The four come from jazz and have turned their instruments into something of their own, with countless effects, preparations, live sampling and a drum kit built for this music.

A DEDL concert is one single continuous piece, usually between one and two hours: every piece comes into being in the moment, improvisation and hypnotic repetition carry each other, and the sound remains recognisable, psychedelic, sensual and wild, danceable as soon as the room wants it. They play in techno clubs and jazz clubs, at festivals and in off-spaces, on ships, in bunkers and planetariums, often with live visuals by Lucas Grey.

ROOOTS to SHOOTS

Daniel Garrido Casares

Jose Pineiro Trio

Born: March 11, 1991

In the pursuit of finding a voice in his art, Jose Pineiro has grasped tightly the evocative and emotional genre of Jazz. Burgeoning from a fertile music scene in Gainesville, FL honed his discovery of a true musical identity. Jumping the gap between peace and mania, the Jose Pineiro Trio means to reach the depths of human interactions to relay the beauty in life.

James McKain

Born: May 30

McKain is a saxophonist living in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. He is largely associated with free jazz and freely improvised music. He is less interested in these mediums less as stable genres (though: guilty as charged when it comes to his relatively Catholic listening predilections), and more of a method. He finds that the best improvised music synthesizes form -- as a collective activity the best moments do not keep one beholden to form, but rather one can recognize patterns in which one can change the hierarchy and structure of the music being played in real time itself. McKain believes form is a malleable concept.

Sverre Sæbø

Born: March 14, 1998

Sverre Sandnes Sæbø is double bass player, composer and bandleader from Trondheim, Norway. He dedicates most of his artistic activities to different forms of jazz and improvised music with a love for exploring new expressions. His bass playing expresses flexibility, flow and a search for instinctive musical development.  Trough his creativity and interactive musicianship he is easily recognizable in any project with his characteristic sound and long hair. 

After finishing his bachelor degree in jazz performance at the Grieg academy, University of Bergen in 2023 he has been based in Bergen, where he has become a central figure in the city's music scene. Being part of bands like Avian Art, Aksel Røed's other aspects and more, he also released the debut album of his own Sverre Sæbø Quintet called "If, however, you have not lost your self control" this spring (2025). The album was received by great reviews and followed by a tour around Norway with concerts at Kongsbergjazz and Soddjazz to name a few. 

BAD Trio

Active since: 2014

Formed in 2014, the BAD Trio (Brae Grimes, Aaron McCoullough, and Dan Mamrot) share a unique aesthetic based on 90s rock riffs, free jazz, and global rhythmic devices. Their debut studio release, Glen Roy, takes tongue-in-cheek inspiration from the suburb they have called home since the 2020 pandemic.

Pedro Molina: A Name I Knew

by Scott Lichtman
June 24, 2026

It is a rare occurrence when multiple jazz skills are executed at such high level that the experience transcends music and becomes a moment of exhilaration and reflection. Such a moment exists with acoustic bassist Pedro Molina's quartet album, A Name I Knew. It balances free improvisation with an impression of careful scoring, mesmerizing personal voices ...