Jazz Libertines

Formerly "Free Jazz Libertines". JAZZ LIBERTINES is produced by Jay Hinman in San Francisco, CA. This is a podcast devoted to freedom-loving jazz heroes of today and yesterday. My other music sites are Dynamite Hemorrhage and Adult Listening. Email me at [email protected].

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Starting off lovely with the HORACE TAPSCOTT QUINTET, this edition of Jazz Libertines heads into deeper cavities and neural pathways with an hour of blasters and ear-scrapers, including some new-ish stuff from COLIN WEBSTER & MATTHEW GRIGG and JOHN KRAUSBAEUR & PATRICK SHIROISHI. After a clanger from BALLISTER (pictured), we end with some truly inspired freedom from CHARLES GAYLE and a 1994 trio date at The Knitting Factory in NYC.

Listen to Jazz Libertines #16.

Track listing:

HORACE TAPSCOTT QUINTET - Your Child

COLIN WEBSTER & MATTHEW GRIGG - Soft Atom

JOHN KRAUSBAEUR & PATRICK SHIROISHI - High Life

BALLISTER - Release Levers 

CHARLES GAYLE w/ SUNNY MURRAY & WILLIAM PARKER - Lord Lord

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2023′s first JAZZ LIBERTINES episode, and it’s a whopper. Our 15th program brings together some late 60s/early 70s beasts (SUN RA, GARY BARTZ NTU TROOP, CHARLES BRACKEEN, CHICO FREEMAN and DON CHERRY) with two fantastic new tracks from the Finnish label Ultraääni Records. 

Listen to Jazz Libertines #15 here.

Track listing:

CHICO FREEMAN - Look Up ISACH SKEIDSVOLL - Dance To Summon VILLE LAHTEENMAKI TRIO - Mare Incognitum DON CHERRY - Awake Nu GARY BARTZ NTU TROOP - B.A.M SUN RA - The Night of the Purple Moon CHARLES BRACKEEN - Rhythm X

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As we plot a course for more regular uploads of this program, here's a new installment of JAZZ LIBERTINES, the 14th of what looks like a soon-to-be steady stream of Jazz Libertines episodes. This time: spotlight on three 2022 Clean Feed releases; a brand-new reissue of crazed NYC late 90s free jazz from Mishagas; some amazing 70s sounds from Steve Reid and Roy Brooks - and more.

Listen to Jazz Libertines #14 here.

Track listing:

MISHAGAS - Discernment ANGLES - Fkk Down, Fkk Off TARBABY FEAT. OLIVER LAKE - Bumper YAROSLAV LIKHACHEV QUARTET - O.S. #5 STEVE REID - Nova ROY BROOKS - The Free Slave FLAHERTY/COLBOURNE/DOWNS - Primal Burn (Part 1)

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Formerly known as "Free Jazz Libertines", our new podcast may be slightly less free but it's slightly better than it used to be. Some phenomenal pieces here on JAZZ LIBERTINES #13, both improvisational and carefully planned.

Listen to Jazz Libertines Episode 13 on Mixcloud.

Tracks:

STEVE REID ENSEMBLE - Lugano JORGEN MATHISEN’S INSTANT LIGHT - Quasar LLOYD McNEIL - As A Matter of Fact KEVIN MURRAY/KAZUTO SATO/TOM WEEKS - The Sickness Unto Death THE ROLAND KIRK QUARTET - Slippery, Hippery, Flippery ROY BROOKS - Billie’s Bounce (live)

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It took a while, shall we say, to get a new Free Jazz Libertines podcast on the books. Here we are with #12, featuring some great new stuff from MCKAIN / MURRAY/ RADICHEL / SUAREZ / WEEKS, along with heroes as diverse and wild as the Jooklo Quartet, John Coltrane and Max Roach. 

It’s an hour of improvisation and near-improvisation and much loveliness, however you define the term. However, there’s an error in the back-announce - it’s TOM Weeks and KEVIN Murray, not the reverse-polarity trick I did with their names.

Stream Free Jazz Libertines #12 here

Track listing:


JOOKLO QUARTET - That Kind of Stuff

MCKAIN / MURRAY / RADICHEL / SUAREZ / WEEKS - That Wretch Comparable to Mirrors


INSTANT LIGHT - Mayhall’s Object


MARION BROWN - Similar Limits


JOHN COLTRANE - The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost


MAX ROACH - Joshua

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Ending 2019 with a raw hour of blowing, blasting & experimentation. 3 of the pieces are new - and one's from the David S. Ware Quartet from nearly 25 years ago.  Check it out here, and we'll see you on the other side of the new year.

Stream Free Jazz Libertines #11 on Mixcloud.

Track listing:

SPYKES / PARASHI - Untitled Side A KEN VANDERMARK / PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE DUO - A DAVID S. WARE QUARTET - Direction: Pleiadas IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS - Homeless/Global

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Here's our first double-digit episode of FREE JAZZ LIBERTINES. 

To mark the occasion, let's go big and run free with three fantastic workouts. First one's brand new from the duo MICHAEL FOSTER & BEN BENNETT (pictured); next is a piece from earlier in the decade from PRETTY MONSTERS, and we shut down - and take up two-thirds of the program - with PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE, YONG YANDSEN and CHRISTIAN MEAAS SVENDSEN doing a layered and complex seven-pieces-in-one track called "Hungry Ghosts".

Tracks:

MICHAEL FOSTER & BEN BENNETT - Lint Creeper

PRETTY MONSTERS - Patricia Highsmith

PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE, YONG YANDSEN & CHRISTIAN MEAAS SVENDSEN - Hungry Ghosts

Listen to Free Jazz Libertines #10 here.

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New episode! Two blitzkrieging new releases this episode from THE BIG YES! (pictured) and KODIAN TRIO, both of which are stellar free jazz from Europe. We also continue the Chris Corsano tribute with a track from 2006's team-up with Paul Flaherty, "The Beloved Music".

Listen to Free Jazz Libertines #9 here.

Track listing:

KODIAN TRIO - I PAUL FLAHERTY & CHRIS CORSANO - What Do You Mean This Is a Dry County? THE BIG YES! - Kalmar Union

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FREE JAZZ LIBERTINES #8 is a tribute to whirlwind improvisational drummer Chris Corsano, in all his glory. You'll hear five relatively new pieces from his extensive discography, plus another one from a decade ago - the one that showed me just what a powerhouse he is. Enjoy!

Listen to Free Jazz Libertines #8 here.

RODRIGO AMADO / CHRIS CORSANO - Announcement BACZKOWSKI / LOPEZ / CORSANO - Open Hearth AMADO / McPHEE / KESSLER / CORSANO - Theory of Mind II (For Joe) CORSANO / NACE / BACZKOWSKI - Mystic Beings METTE RASMUSSEN / CHRIS CORSANO - Many People Were Scandalized - Some Still Are VIRGINIA GENTA & CHRIS CORSANO - Some Birds Are Free People

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With at least a half-hearted commitment to start doing these much more regularly, here's FREE JAZZ LIBERTINES #7. Everything played here save for Black Unity Trio ('71) is brand-new or less than a year old, and all are some pretty intense and gnarly improvisational teeth-gnashers.

Listen to Free Jazz Libertines #7 here.

TATAKAI TRIO - Grinning BEN HALL & DON DIETRICH - Untitled (Side A) KEVIN MURRAY / KAZUTO SATO / TOM WEEKS - Beretta BLACK UNITY TRIO - In Light of Blackness INGRID LAUBROCK & TOM RAINEY - Riddled HENDERSON / CALLWOOD / DONALDSON - Triple Travesty

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Here's a new dose of intense and explorational free jazz from the further limits of human musical possibility. Free Jazz Libertines #6 is brought to you by your host Keith Chosen, and by the brothers and sisters who left it all on the stage and in the studio to bring you these sounds.

Stream Free Jazz Libertines #6 here.

Track listing:

BACZKOWSKI / PADMANABHA - Artery COLIN WESTER / ANDREW LISLE / OTTO WILBERG - The Whole Megillah METTE RASMUSSEN / TASHI DORJI - Bull Rush RASHID BAKR / FRODE GJERSTAD / WILLIAM PARKER - Seeing KUZU - Fontanelles 1

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Last episode was all material from the 21st century - so let's dial it back to the 20th this time for FREE JAZZ LIBERTINES #5. Nothing newer than 1977 this time - all free, all wild, all avant-whatever. We think you'll enjoy it.

Stream Free Jazz Libertines #5 here.

Track listing:

BROTZMANN / VAN HOVE / BENNINK - Just for Altena NOAH HOWARD - Mount Fuji WILLIAM HOOKER - Soy: Material / Seven

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FREE JAZZ LIBERTINES podcast #4 is now live and ready for you to stream it.

1 hour of some of the finest honking and squealing you'll hear anywhere - and all of it from this century, even.

METTE RASMUSSEN & TASHI DORJI – Cattail Horse KODIAN TRIO – 4:40 FRODE GJERSTAD, JOHN EDWARDS & MARK SANDERS – The Welsh Chapel Part 1 LOTTE ANKER, PAT THOMAS, INGEBRIGT HAKEN FLATEN, STALE LIAVEK SOLBERG  - In Flight MELANCHOLY BABES – Boot

Listen here.

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This 2014 video of Mette Rasmussen and Chris Corsano in Copenhagen is really worth the time it’ll take you to watch it.

http://unseenrec.com/recordings/chris-corsano-mette-rasmussen/

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FREE JAZZ LIBERTINES #3 podcast now available.

Keith Chosen takes you through avant-garde, improvisational and totally free jazz in this hour. Here's what you'll hear:

PETER KOWALD / FRED LONBERG-HOLM - b&c 1 JOE McPHEE QUARTET - Underground Railroad RODOLPHE LOUBATIERE / FRANCK VIGROUX - 2000 ATOMIC - El Coto PETER BROTZMANN, HENRY MILLER & LOUIS MOHOLO - The Nearer The Bone, The Sweeter The Meat

Listen to it on Mixcloud right here!

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Found a couple of perfect-condition CECIL TAYLOR 70s LPs for not too much cash yesterday at Amoeba Music in San Francisco.

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We're back. FREE JAZZ LIBERTINES podcast wasn't a one-trick pony after all. Here's what you'll hear in just over an hour of music:

RASMUSSEN / DORJI / DAMON - To The Animal Kingdom MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI - First Session 1 (Gradually Projection) ROJI - Prelude To A Broken Sax MEYSSON / LOUBATIERE DUO - Sédition (A Side) TOM PREHN QUARTET - Axiom 1

Listen to Free Jazz Libertines #2 here.