Free Improvisation Playlist

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1. Compositions 1960: No. 9 — Noel Akchoté
2. Illusion — Andrew Hill
3. Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow — James Tenney
4. Machine Gun — The Peter Brötzmann Octet
5. Sweet Earth Flying — Marion Brown
6. Afrisong — Muhal Richard Abrams
7. Barn Dance — Fred Frith
8. The Mystery Song — Steve Lacy
9. With A Little Help From My Friends — Mary Halvorson
10. Air Raid — Grachan Moncur III
11. Mikuro's Blues — David S. Ware
12. Amma Jerusalem School — Matana Roberts
13. Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales: 1) Olympos' Pentatonic 2) Archytas' Enharmonic — Kronos Quartet
14. Muted — Zeena Parkins
15. Well, well Cornelius — John Tilbury
16. Excerpt from Stain - The Music Rooms — Maryanne Amacher
17. Junk Magic — Craig Taborn
18. Discharge — Last Exit
19. Creole Girl — Noah Howard
20. 6-77AR-36K (Opus 23B) — Anthony Braxton
21. Tarik — Dewey Redman
22. 626 Fairfax — Don Pullen
23. Valentina Di Sera — Bill Dixon
24. Quest — Barre Phillips
25. e — Derek Bailey
26. Sex Tape 2 — Peter Brotzmann
27. Touchin' on Trane: Pt. B — Charles Gayle
28. Bye Bye Butterfly — Pauline Oliveros
29. Utopia and Visions — Don Cherry
30. Guy: Toward the Margins — Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
31. Alegria — Susie Ibarra
32. Thought On Earth — Dave Holland
33. Memoirs — Charlie Haden
34. Who Does She Hope To Be? — Sonny Sharrock
35. Beautiful Love — Nels Cline
36. Spatial Principle ¬ D — John Butcher
37. Black Woman — Sonny Sharrock
38. Grandola Vila Morena — Charlie Haden
39. The Shining One — Craig Taborn
40. Summer Rain — Peter Brotzmann
41. Crossing the Sands — Pauline Oliveros
42. Untitled No. I — Derek Bailey
43. Tuck — Derek Bailey
44. You Stepped Out of a Dream — Anthony Braxton
45. RBHM (Opus 23D) — Anthony Braxton
46. Reflections — Steve Lacy
47. Dnjbb (Cake-Mix) — Derek Bailey
48. G-Song — Kronos Quartet
49. Part 3 — Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
50. Auge des Betrachters — Peter Brotzmann
51. Healing Force — Don Pullen
52. Responsible / For Jan Van De Ven, First Take — The Peter Brötzmann Octet
53. Oneiric Memories — Peter Brotzmann
54. Two by Two — Barre Phillips
55. Brown Rice — Don Cherry
56. Evolution — Grachan Moncur III
57. Pretty Mountain — Mary Halvorson
58. Invocation — Matana Roberts
59. I (The Moment's Energy) — Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
60. Responsible / For Jan Van De Ven — The Peter Brötzmann Octet
61. Machine Gun, Second Take — The Peter Brötzmann Octet
62. Sweet Georgia Bright — David S. Ware
63. Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) — Marc Ribot
64. No Me Llores Mas — Marc Ribot
65. Lonely Woman — Ornette Coleman
66. It's a Rainy Day on the Cosmic Shore — Ana Roxanne
67. Conference Of The Birds — Dave Holland Quartet
68. Last Night The Moon Came — Jon Hassell
69. Útviklingssang — Carla Bley
70. Water Torture — Bennie Maupin
71. Something Sweet, Something Tender — Eric Dolphy
72. Contracts — Archie Shepp

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