This is FRESH AIR. In the 1970s, influential musicians such as Ornette Coleman began combining free jazz and electric funk. Three notable vets of free funk bands periodically team up to get ...

Alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman's masterpiece, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation by the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet, is one of the hinges of jazz evolution. As a musical hinge, Free Jazz, ...

The free jazz concert marks the first public performance of pianist and composer Dawn Clement’s new ensemble, which features ...

DETROIT - The word “free” isn’t used lightly when it comes to this world-renowned event. When they say this is the largest free event of its kind in the entire world, they mean it. The Detroit Jazz ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... City Park Jazz, an annual series of free jazz concerts that turns Denver’s marquis green space into the biggest and best party in town on Sunday evenings in ...

For this edition of the Audio Archive, we continue this weekend's focus on the great baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett by spotlighting Endangered Species, his recording debut as a leader. Originally ...

DETROIT - It doesn’t get any bigger than the largest in the entire world. For more than 40 years, Michigan has been home to a music festival which features more than 60 performances on multiple stages ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The tranquil sounds of birds in Heritage Park will soon be joined by the soulful melodies of saxophones as the 64th Annual Texas Jazz Festival kicks off in Corpus Christi.