(Free Jazz, Free Improvisation) The Fred Anderson Trio - Live at the Velvet Lounge - 1999, FLAC (tracks+.cue) lossless

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Free music is usually perceived as emanating from two separate streams, American and European, with the former descended from jazz and the latter from 20th-century classical music. While the two streams often travel different courses, they flow together too often for this generalization to carry water. German bassist Peter Kowald has piloted both currents for decades; in the ’60s, his work with Peter Brotzmann and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble ignited the European improv scene, but he also came to New York in 1984 to help organize the Sound Unity Festival, a precursor of the current Vision Festival. Last year, Kowald paid another visit to these shores, and recordings have begun to turn up. He joins Chicago-based veteran tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson’s trio on Live at the Velvet Lounge. Kowald and drummer Hamid Drake stoke Anderson’s long, snaking improvisations with seething, endlessly variable rhythms.

OkkaDisk continues to demonstrate that Chicago has seized the initiative in channeling energy into the creation of meaningful jazz. Importantly, it acknowledges the continuing contribution of veterans such as Joe McPhee and, in this instance, saxophonist Fred Anderson. Now 70, Anderson’s profile has remained lower than those of other founding members of the AACM, but on this set, recorded last year at the club he runs to make ends meet, his gnarly playing still grips the attention with its muscle and urgency. He flourishes in the best of company: percussionist Hamid Drake and bassist Peter Kowald. The outcome is musicianship that matters.

Fred Anderson — tenor saxophone
Peter Kowald — bass
Hamid Drake — percussion