Espen Berg: The Trondheim Concert

The idea of free improvisation means different things to different people. For some it suggests the lineage that began with the so-called “energy players” of the late 1960s, musically untutored berserkers whose enthusiasm for Albert Ayler, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders inspired them to pick up a horn and play whatever notes fell at random under their fingers, typically at maximum volume… [ read more ]