Selection: Free Jazz
Artist: Ornette Coleman
Recording: Free Jazz
Label/Year: Atlantic, 1961

Ornette Coleman
Doughnut
Town Hall, 1962
ESP, 1965

Peace Concert
Joe Manieri/Peter Dolger
Peace Concert
Atavistic, 2008 (Recorded ’63 or ’64)

Jim Ryan/Forward Energy
How Are You
The Concept
Cadence Jazz, 2003

Acoustic Reign Project
A9/B9
Arc
SolDisk, 2011

Artist: Ornette Coleman
Selection: Ramblin’
Recording: Change of the Century
Atlantic, 1960

John Coltrane
Mr. Syms
Plays the Blues
Atlantic, 1962

Cecil Taylor
Air
Air
Barnaby/Candid, 1971 (Recorded: 1960)

Charles Mingus
What Love
Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
Barnaby/Candid, 1977 (Recorded: 1960)

Larry Young
Plaza De Toros
Into Something
Blue Note, 1964

Guiseppi Logan
Dance of Satan
Quartet
ESP, 1964

Steve Lacy
Zoo
The Forest And The Zoo
ESP, 1966

Anthony Braxton
Side Two, Cut Three
New York, Fall, 1974
Arista, 1975

Gino Robair/Anthony Braxton
Counting Song
Duets, 1987
Rastacan, 1987

Alexander Von Schlippenbach/Sunny Murray
Angel Voice
Smoke
Free Music Productions, 1989

Artist: Steve Coleman
Selection: Noctiluca (Jan 11)
The Mancy of Sound
PI Recordings, 2011

Happy Apple
Hence the Turtleneck
Back On Top
Sunnyside, 2007

Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd
Tune 2
Early and Late
Cuneiform, 2007 (Recorded: 1962)

New York Art Quartet
Pa Tirsdag
Old Stuff
Cuneiform, 2007 (Recorded: 1965)

Kahil El’Zabar & David Murray
Sweet Meat
We Is/Live At The Bop Shop
Delmark, 2004

Albert Ayler
The Wizard
Spiritual Unity
ESP, 1964

Paul Motian
Dance
Misterioso
Soul Note, 1986

Joe Morris
Angle of Incidence
Camera
ESP, 2010

Pear
Dewey Miles
Extemp’ore
Pear Studio, 2011

Rent Romus’ Lords of Outland w/Vinny Golia
Ovular Amphivoid
Edge of Dark
Edgetone, 2011

Brad Mehldau
Countdown
Trio Live
Nonesuch, 2008

Artist: John Coltrane
Selection: Ascension: Part’s I & II
Recording: Ascension
Label/Year: Impulse! 1965

Rova Orkestrova
Electric Ascension: Parts 1-8
Electric Ascension
Atavistic, 2003

John Coltrane’s collective improvisation ‘Ascension’ from June, 1965 bears much in common with Ornette Coleman’s ‘Free Jazz’, recorded 5 years earlier. However, as noted by Archie Shepp in the LP’s liner notes: ‘Free Jazz created a new form and Ascension is a further step in the development of that form. The same can be said of the Rova Orkestrova’s Electric Ascension, recorded nearly 40 years later. As Rova saxophonist Larry Ochs says in his recording’s liner notes [this performance] ‘could not have been performed 40 years ago. Both technologically and conceptually, this performance could not have happened’. While Rova does not ‘Ascend’ in the same manner the original does as a collective expression of Coltrane’s religious convictions, they do an excellent job of using the original motif to spur themselves into a wide range of solo and collective pools, using their chosen instrumentation. The moods range from spiritual to downright eerie science fiction electronics, reminding one of 60′s sci-fi films. All in all, ti is a bold,adventurous task successfully undertaken by some of today’s improvisational masters.

Artist: The Teaching
Selection: Colorado
Recording: Live at The Triple Door: 8/24/09
Label/Year: Teaching Music, 2011

Jessica Williams
Lonnie’s Lament
Freedom Trane
Origin, 2011

Bill Anschell
Big Yellow Taxi
Figments
Origin, 2011

Jimmy Bennington
Equinox
Midnight Choir
oa2, 2003

Dan Blunck/Michael Bisio
Ayler’s Lament
Concerted
Cadence Jazz, 2000

Chris Pugh/Jack Gold-Molina
One Hundred Years of Abstraction: Part III
One Hundred Years of Abstraction
Soldisk, 2011

Jack Gold-Molina
Colored Houses
Colored Houses
Soldisk, 2009 (Recorded: 2003)

Skerik’s Illuminasty Trio Featuring Bert Wilson
Improv 2
Live at Arthouse
Engeness Recordings, 2007

The Tiptons
12 Ways
Drive
Zipa!/Spoot, 2005

In the Realm of Obscurity the One Things that’s Prevalent is the Smell of Absurdity
Tony Grasso Saxophone Quartet?
The Tony Grasso Saxophone Quartet
Tony Grasso, 1999

Metropolitain Sax Quartet
Punk Sidewalk
Metropolitain Sax Quartet
Skinny Blimp Productions, 1995

Industrial Revelation
Always Good, Always Safe
Unreal Reality
3380, 2009

Artist: Ernest Dawkins/New Horizons Ensemble
Selection:Shades of the Prairie Prophet
Recording: The Prairie Prophet
Label/Year: Delmark, 2011

The Teaching
Bashar
Live At The Triple Door
The Teaching Music, 2010

Benoit Delbecq
Meanwhile
Circles And Calligrams
Songlines, 2010

Colin Vallon
Fjord
Rruga
ECM, 2011

Rent Romus
Spreading Tar of Microcosmic Infinity
Edge of The Dark
Edgetone, 2011

Art Ensemble of Chicago
A Jackson In Your House
A Jackson In Your House
Charly/Affinity, 1978 (Recorded, 1969)

Chico Freeman
No Time Left
No Time Left
Black Saint, 1979

Wadada Leo Smith’s Organic
Toni Morrison: The Black Hole (Sagittarius A*), Conscience and Epic Memory
Heart’s Reflections
Cuneiform, 2011

Pear
Dewey Miles
Extemp’ore
Pear Studio, 2011

Mark Alban Lotz
Ursuppe
Istanbul IMprov Sessions, May 5th
Lop Lop, 2011

H-Alpha
V1216 Sagittarii
Red Sphere
Skirl, 2008

Macroscopia
Opening
Macroscopia
Metier Jazz, 2010

Artist: Chico Hamilton
Selection: Andante/Speak Low
Recording: With Strings Attached
Label/Year: Warner Bros, 1959

Booker Little
We Speak
Out Front
Candid, 1961

Eric Dolphy
The Baron
Out There
Prestige, 1960

Herbie Hancock
One Finger Snap
Empyrean Isles
Blue Note, 1964

Eric Dolphy
Miss Ann
Gaslight, 1962
Get Back, 2007 (Recorded: 1962)

Eric Dolphy
Miss Ann
Last Date
Trip Jazz, 1964

Jacques Corsil
Black Suite: Part I & II
Black Suite
BYG/Actuel, 1969

Anthony Braxton
You Stepped Out Of A Dream
Five Pieces, 1975
Arista, 1975

Anthony Braxton
Dedicated to Composer John Cage
For Alto
Delmark, 1970

Artist: Fred Anderson
Selection: The Bull
Recording: Dark Day/Live in Verona
Label/Year: Atavistic, 2001 (Recorded: 1979)

Joe Henderson
Opus One-Point-Five
Power to the People
Milestone, 1969

Freddie Hubbard
Breaking Point
Breaking Point
Blue Note, 1964

Musica Elletronica Viva
Sound Pool: Pt 1
The Sound Pool
BYG/Actuel, 1969

Cecil McBee
Mutima
Mutima
Strata-East, 1974

Music, Inc.
Felicite
Live at Slugs’: Vol I
Strata-East, 1972

Sam Rivers
Dance of the Tripedal
Contours
Blue Note, 1965

Tony Williams Lifetime
Vashar
Emergency!
Verve/Polydor, 1969

Sonny Rollins
East Broadway Rundown
East Broadway Rundown
Impulse!, 1966

Artist: Jack Gold-Molina
Selection: Through Autumn
Recording: Colored Houses
Label/Year: Soldisk, 2009 (Recorded: 2003)

Jeff Johnson
Paris
Tall Man
Origin, 2008 (Recorded, 2002)

Industrial Revelation
5033 Brooklyn
Unreal Reality
3380, 2009

Thomas Marriott
The Brown Hornet
Human Spirit
Origin, 2011

Skerik/Syncopated Faint Septet
Fry His Ass
Husky
Hyena, 2006

Jessica Williams
Lonnie’s Lament
Freedom Trane
Origin, 2011

Rick Mandyck/Gregg Keplinger
Seraphic Light
Tribute
Origin, 1999

Dan Dean
Dolphin Dance
2-5-1
Origin, 2010

Craig Flory/Doug Haire
Split The Blast
Wigwam Bendix
Franchise, 1998

Dave Glenn
Lost In The Sun
National Pastime
Origin, 2009

Kuru Cult
Track #11
Demo
Independent, 2006

All performances are by Charles Mingus, unless otherwise noted.

Selection: Pithcanthropus Erectus
Recording: Passions of A Man
Label/Year: Atlantic, 1979 (recorded: 1956)

Hatian Fight Song
Passions of A Man
Atlantic, 1979 (Recorded: 1957)

Fables of Faubus
Mingus Ah Um
Columbia, 1959

Lock ‘em Up
The Candid Recordings
Barnaby/Candid, 1971 (Recorded: 1960)

Passions of a Man
Passions of a Man
Atlantic, 1979 (Recorded, 1961)

Meditations on Integration
The Great Concert
Prestige, 1972 (Recorded: 1972)

Passions of a Woman Loved
Passions of a Man
Atlantic, 1979 (Recorded: 1957)

Joni Mitchell
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Mingus
Asylum, 1979