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Producer – Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden. Trumpet – Michael Sell. Written-By – Scherf (tracks: A1, B1, B3, B4), Sell (tracks: A2, A3, B2).

As a group they sound ahead of their time. That's helped by the unconventional instrumentation and the swapping between instruments by everyone except Sell. The throbbing drums and guitar avoid steady meter. And while all anything goes between the composed segments, which take in tricky unisons and free-bop heads, the transitions convince as accomplished and natural. Some of the approaches are also novel such as the drone backing for a drum feature. Simultaneous blowing of horns remains potent, but the free for all sounds more generic. Frictions Now Part 2" seems fresh in its restraint, exploration of tone color, gradual cumulative development and textural variation with König on double flute, and Scherf on oboe and the piano strings. But notwithstanding any limitations, it's a great find.

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Unlike Braxton and Bailey, the Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden will likely be unfamiliar to most. They were active only from 1969-1972, and then mostly within Germany. They are an absolutely fabulous discovery. The single CD Frictions/Frictions Now (NoBusiness) accommodates their complete recordings, excepting only an eight minute festival excerpt included on the Born Free compilation (Scout, 1970). Frictions opens with Scherf on piano, König on flute, and Schlick vigorous on toms, and this is the most dated passage of play on the album, evocative of any number early 70s multi-kulti enterprises. But there’s an effortless transition to full kit drumming behind twinned sax and trumpet, and the quartet are soon playing with focused intensity, Scherf’s sax ever on the cusp of plaintive anguish and hymnal ecstasy.

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Free jazz is an approach to jazz that developed in the 1960s when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes. Musicians during this period believed that the bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz that had been played before them was too limiting. They became preoccupied with creating something new. Free jazz has often been combined with or substituted for the term "avant-garde jazz".

Frankfurt, 12th Deutsches Jazzfestival 1970, second concert. The group undoubtedly performed additional music, but this excerpt is all I have.

Free Free JAZZ, Palma De Mallorca, Spain. only real free FREE JAZZ has the freedom to decide to imitate all emotions between love and hate. Ascension is a jazz album by John Coltrane recorded in 1965 and released in 1966 t is often considered to be a cornerstone of Coltrane's work, with the albums recorded before it being more conventional in structure and the albums recorded after it being looser, free jazz inspired works. In addition, it signaled Coltrane's interest in moving away from the quartet format.