Avant-garde jazz groups can sometimes sound too remote or off-the-wall, even to a hard-core jazz fan. When free jazz musicians play without bass, piano or drums, the music can have a tendency to lose ...

programme off to a roaring start with some challenging but accessible works. Graham Fitkin's Hurl was a strong opener, while Dai Fujikura's Spiral Bound used dissonant fields of sound out of which ...

The Munich-based ensemble returns to the Linde Center with a program pairing Bach fugues with contemporary preludes, creating ...