Free Improvisation Playlist

Free Improvisation — Free improvisation is a form of improvised music centered on a commitment to non-idiomatic musical expression.

🔒 The top 10 are this genre's must-play anthems — the biggest hits no DJ leaves out — so they stay pinned. Tap 🔀 and everything from #11 down refreshes into a fresh mix (from a pool of 168).

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. Muted — Zeena Parkins
10. Mikuro's Blues — David S. Ware
11. Amma Jerusalem School — Matana Roberts
12. Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales: 1) Olympos' Pentatonic 2) Archytas' Enharmonic — Kronos Quartet
13. With A Little Help From My Friends — Mary Halvorson
14. Well, well Cornelius — John Tilbury
15. Excerpt from Stain - The Music Rooms — Maryanne Amacher
16. Junk Magic — Craig Taborn
17. Discharge — Last Exit
18. Creole Girl — Noah Howard
19. Air Raid — Grachan Moncur III
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. Grandola Vila Morena — Charlie Haden
38. G-Song — Kronos Quartet
39. Black Woman — Sonny Sharrock
40. The Shining One — Craig Taborn
41. Summer Rain — Peter Brotzmann
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. Part 3 — Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
49. Auge des Betrachters — Peter Brotzmann
50. Healing Force — Don Pullen
51. Responsible / For Jan Van De Ven, First Take — The Peter Brötzmann Octet
52. Oneiric Memories — Peter Brotzmann
53. Two by Two — Barre Phillips
54. Crossing the Sands — Pauline Oliveros
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. Lonely Woman — Ornette Coleman
65. Útviklingssang — Carla Bley
66. No Me Llores Mas — Marc Ribot
67. Vashkar — Carla Bley
68. Water Torture — Bennie Maupin
69. Theme for the Eulipions — Rahsaan Roland Kirk
70. Conference Of The Birds — Dave Holland Quartet
71. It's a Rainy Day on the Cosmic Shore — Ana Roxanne
72. Contracts — Archie Shepp
73. 1517 — Joseph Shabason
74. In a Landscape (1948) — Stephen Drury
75. So Nice — Tomasz Stanko Quintet
76. Warm Canto — Mal Waldron
77. Light: Look at Your Sun — Ash Ra Tempel
78. Deep Distance — Ashra
79. Something Sweet, Something Tender — Eric Dolphy
80. Last Night The Moon Came — Jon Hassell
81. Darkness: Flowers Must Die 3 — Ash Ra Tempel
82. Shelda — Smoke
83. Delta Rain Dream — Jon Hassell
84. Sunrain — Ashra
85. Rothko Chapel 5 — Morton Feldman
86. Equipoise — Max Roach
87. Spirits up Above — Rahsaan Roland Kirk
88. Take off Your Clothes and Feel the Setting Sun — Wolfgang Dauner Quintet
89. Cecen Kizi — Nathan Davis
90. Malesch — Agitation Free
91. Enlightenment — Sun Ra
92. Rücksturz — Agitation Free
93. Processional — Dave Holland Quartet
94. I Am Sky — Laraaji
95. Human Nature — Vijay Iyer
96. Hat And Beard — Eric Dolphy
97. Nobody Knows the Troubles I've Seen — Archie Shepp
98. Four Winds — Dave Holland Quartet
99. Darkness: Flowers Must Die 2 — Ash Ra Tempel
100. Anthem of the Trinity — Terry Riley

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