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John Tchicai

Born: April 28, 1936

By approaching jazz from a wide scope, Afro-Danish-American John Tchicai has been continuously progressive throughout his life. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1936, of a Danish mother and a Congolese father and growing up in healthy surroundings, John Martin Tchicai became a leading exponent of the jazz avant-garde in New York in the '60s and a father-figure for the European avant-garde after that. Now based in Davis, California, and Claira, France, by a single-mindedness of purpose and action, his work still reflects what he's always been doing, which is innovate and inspire other people, in a most refreshing way

The New York Art Quartet and the Noah Howard Quartet on Ezz-thetics

by John Eyles
May 24, 2023

Although the Ezz-thetics label has been issuing a steady stream of classic albums from the '50s and '60s, some of the label's releases cannot be called classics but are of great historical interest and significance nonetheless. Some such albums are discoveries which have never before been released, while others are reissues of albums which were outshone ...

New York Art Quartet

The New York Art Quartet was a pioneering free jazz ensemble that emerged in the early 1960s. The group was formed in 1964 by saxophonist John Tchicai and drummer Milford Graves, both of whom were associated with the avant-garde jazz movement in New York City. The quartet also included trombonist Roswell Rudd and bassist Lewis Worrell.

The New York Art Quartet was known for their innovative and experimental approach to jazz, drawing from various influences such as bebop, free improvisation, and European classical music. They embraced a collective improvisational style, allowing each member to contribute their unique voice to the music.

Ensō: The John Tchicai Lunar Quartet live in Ferrara

By John Tchicai

Label: Tonos Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Anthem of Hope; Freedom; A Chaos With Some Kind Of Order; Ensō - St. John; Wooden Bridge; We Need Your Number.

New York Eye And Ear Control Revisited

By Albert Ayler

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2021
Track listing: Don’s Dawn; A Y; ITT.

Copenhagen 1963 Revisited. Live Jazzhus Montmartre

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2021
Track listing: Cisum; Trio; Consequences; The Funeral; Wo Wo; O. C.; When Will the Blue Leave; Monk's Mood; Emotions; Crepuscule with Nellie; Mik.

Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz

by Chris May
September 7, 2021

Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz Submarine Deluxe 2021 There is much to like about this lovingly put together history of the so-called free jazz of the 1960s and 1970s. Over a decade in the making, the film, directed by self- declared genre obsessive Tom Surgal, is a compilation ...

Albert Ayler: New York Eye and Ear Control Revisited

by Mark Corroto
August 10, 2021

The backstory of New York Ear and Eye Control is a significant factor in the music and the direction free jazz took in the 1960s. Filmmaker Michael Snow commissioned Albert Ayler's trio with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray to record a thirty-minute soundtrack for a movie, “Walking Woman," he had yet to film. As ...

Albert Ayler: New York Eye And Ear Control Revisited

by Chris May
July 30, 2021

The development of so-called free jazz in New York during the first half of the 1960s was topped and tailed by three landmark recordings: Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz (Atlantic, 1961), John Coltrane's Ascension (Impulse, 1966) and Albert Ayler's New York Eye And Ear Control (ESP, 1966). Of the three discs, only New York Eye And Ear ...

A Conversation with Amiri Baraka

by Lazaro Vega
July 16, 2021

From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in November 1999. All About Jazz: I'm just really happy to see that in the last year or so you've become a much more public figure outside of academia through the recording with Hugh Ragin, Afternoon in Harlem on Justin-time, that When ...