Results for "John Murchison"

John Murchison

Heart Music

By George Crotty

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Bandish; Heart Music; Niggun; The Task at Hand; Twelfth House; A Game; Cigarettes at Sunrise; Saturn Return;

Cigarettes at Sunrise

August 9, 2025

Album: Heart Music
By George Crotty
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Duration: 05:24

Blasie Siwula/Luciano Troja/John Murchison: Beneath the Ritual

by Dan McClenaghan
August 19, 2015

The biggest slice of the free jazz stew is cooked up with--going back to the beginnings of alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman's artistry--a horn or two stirred in with bass and drums. The chording instrument--guitar or piano--is generally optional. But when a piano sits in, the potential for sweetening the sound bounces up big time. Consider Coleman's ...

Three Shots from Siwula: Blaise Siwula & NoFrillsMusic

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 18, 2015

The emergence of free jazz in the 1950s and 1960s pioneered a new way of thinking about music that not only affected the way music sounded, but also the way it was shared and distributed. In many ways, free jazz was a movement away from mainstream and mass-distribution and the rediscovery of music as art, but ...