Though the free jazz motion of the Nineteen Sixties and '70s was a lot maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers - sensible skills like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Solar Ra, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane - are at present acknowledged as central to the evolution of jazz as America's most progressive artwork type. FIRE MUSIC showcases the architects of a motion whose radical model of improvisation pushed harmonic and rhythmic boundaries, and produced landmark albums like Coleman's Free Jazz: A Collective Inspiration and Coltrane's Ascension. A wealthy trove of archival footage conjures the Nineteen Sixties jazz scene together with incisive reflections by critic Gary Giddins and numerous the motion's key gamers.
