Fire Music (2018)

Fire Music 2018 Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and 70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane are today acknowledged as central to the evolution of jazz as Americas most innovative art form FIRE MUSIC showcases the architects of a movement whose radical brand of improvisation pushed harmonic and rhythmic boundaries, and produced landmark albums like Colemans Free Jazz A Collective Inspiration and Coltranes Ascension A rich trove of archival footage conjures the 1960s jazz scene along with incisive reflections by critic Gary Giddins and a number of the movements key players