for fusion if you like Bitches brew :
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The inner mounting flame
Nels Cline Singers - The giant pin
Joe McPhee - Nation time
for free jazz,
get first
John Coltrane - Ascension (unsurpassable imo)
some really great classics :
Don Cherry - Eternal rhythm
Eric Dolphy - Out to lunch
Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.
Krzysztof Komeda - Astigmatic
Lodon Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Ode
David Murray - Ming
Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons - Firebirds
Pharoah Sanders - Black unity
Sonny Sharrock - Black woman
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Urban bushmen
Anthony Braxton - Creative orchestra music
Sun Ra - Space is the place
Cecil Taylor - Silent tongues
Ornette Coleman - Free jazz
Tim Berne - Fractured fairy tales
Henry Threadgill - Just the facts and pass the bucket
Peter Brötzmann - Machine gun
John Carter - Castles of Ghana
and some harsher stuff, if you dare :
Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Communications
Dave Burrell - Echo
Alan Silva & the Celestrial Communication Orchestra - Seasons
some more recent but top-notch as well stuff :
Susie Ibarra - Folklorico
Mat Maneri - Sustain
Nicole Mitchell & Black Heart Ensemble - Hope, future and destiny
Matthew Shipp - New orbit
Wadada Leo Smith - Lake Biwa
William Parker - The peach orchard
Bobby Previte - The 23 Constellations of Joan Miró
David S. Ware - Godspelized
When done properly, free jazz is, like, the best thing ever
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