This album is a release of archived material, recorded live in Luxembourg in 1987. Peter Brötzmann has been delving into his archives a lot lately and this release is one of the gems he found. Now on ...

CD1: Sonore; Chicago Tentet with John Tchicai; Michiyo Yagi/Okkyung Lee/Xu Fengxia; Peter Brötzmann/Masahiko Sato/Takeo Moriyama; Peter Brötzmann/Masahiko Satoh/Takeo Moriyama. CD2: Joe McPhee/Maâllem ...

Ten years ago, one of the most volcanic bands in jazz threatened to weaken the beams holding up the Empty Bottle on North Western Avenue. Led by the protean German saxophonist Peter Brotzmann, the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I've lived through earthquakes, cyclones, blizzards, floods, bushfires and now a Peter Brotzmann concert. If bleeding made a sound: ...

Peter Brötzmann, a German saxophonist whose brash, tempestuous outpourings set an imposing standard for free improvisation, and helped define the terms for a postwar European avant-garde, died at his ...

Peter Brötzmann performs in 2011 at “Long Story Short,” a special edition of the festival Music Unlimited in Wels, Austria, that celebrated his 70th birthday. Credit: Gérard Rouy On December 17, ...

Though there’s no shortage of provocative avant-garde performances in Chicago these days, the event that took place Wednesday night at the Empty Bottle stood out. Squeezed onto the club’s tiny stage ...

Near the end of an introductory improvisation on an album curiously titled The Brain of the Dog in Section, Peter Brotzmann and Fred Lonberg-Holm bring their meshing of saxophone and cello to a solemn ...

Saxophonist heralded for his ferocious yet beautifully expressive playing died peacefully in his sleep at home in Germany Peter Brötzmann, the saxophonist whose muscular and emancipated style of ...

Peter Brötzmann, an avant-garde saxophonist whose ferocious playing and uncompromising independence made him one of Europe's most influential free-jazz musicians, died June 22 at his home in Wuppertal ...