Anyone like this Jazz sub-genre?

for me free jazz is something radicvally different then the jazz I listen to, but not worse. Like the name says itself, it's free! Free jazz is not an easy piece of music to listen too, but that won't hold anyone back from not listening to it. Still I recommend giving it a listen. I like it, but not toooo much

i dig the free stuff hehehe... i've been into eric dolphy for a while and i've recently gotten into ornette coleman... i really want to find coleman's 'free jazz' album... the concept behind how the album was recorded sounds worthwhile to me.... 2 quartets improvising on the same ideas each panned to one side of the aural spectrum...

I heard about the album... I heard it's pretty good! I wanna buy it too!

I have out there by Eric Dolphy; and Candid dolphy...pretty good.

I love the intensity of Free-Jazz, it's the only music I've found that can have the same sort of physical affect on the listener as noise artists like Merzbow [or rather, noise has the same effect as Free-Jazz]. The risk-taking and radical nature of Free-Jazz has always appealed to me and there are really some great Free-Jazz artists/albums that should be appreciated more.

Some personal favs:

Cecil Taylor
Steve Lacy
Peter Brötzmann
Albert Ayler
Eric Dolphy
Han Bennink
Paul Bley
Art Ensemble of Chicago

Hi I am new.

I LOVE FREE JAZZ.

Seba is right on the spot.

add Evan Parker
add Derek Bailey
add Anthony Braxton
add Leroy Jenkins
add Misha Mengelberg
add Roswell Rudd
add Sun Ra
add Ganelin Trio
add Jaki Byard
add Jackie Mclean
add John Zorn
add .... etc etc.

To me free jazz is pretty cool.

Although, you cant just have it running somewhere in the background. There is some heavy stuff out there, definately not easy listening.

-Backdoor Bandit

how about Matthew Shipp???

I'm personally a bit critical of Matthew Shipp.

I don't mind equilibrium, but it isn't anything to write home about.

Nu-Bop is mostly atrocious

not a fan of Nu-Bop really? what about New Orbit or Pastoral Composure?