Quartet Afterstorm - John Lindberg (1994)

Lindberg was a frequent sideman for Wadada Leo Smith and for Tony Braxton, two free jazz greats, in addition to making a lot of his own records.

Besides that, I love it when I stumble on something featuring the greatest (and only, for all I know) free jazz trombone, Albert Mangelsdorff.

The jazz is free, and avant, but it’s well organized and stays together better than some free jazz records. I think the market after the 1960s forced free jazz to be a little more coherent–a little less “free” and a little more “jazz.” I also think a lot of leaders figured out how to do that, using the new demands as formal constraints to direct the ferocity without sacrificing the creativity. But I think a lot of things I’m not really qualified to think.