Jun 27, 2023 1:19 PM
Peter Brötzmann: 1941–2023
Peter Brötzmann, a German saxophonist and clarinetist whose music charted a provocative, uncompromising new course for…
Brötzmann worked with nearly every major name in free-jazz within Europe.
Jun 27, 2023 1:19 PM
Peter Brötzmann, a German saxophonist and clarinetist whose music charted a provocative, uncompromising new course for…
Drummer Andrew Cyrille (left), dancer Beatrice Capote and cellist Tomeka Reid perform June 11 during the 2019 Vision Festival at Brooklyn venue Roulette.
Jun 28, 2019 11:42 AM
Free-jazz percussionist Andrew Cyrille introduced tenor player Edward “Kidd” Jordan from behind the kit at…
Saxophonist Peter Brötzmann performs with heavy-psych act Black Bombaim at the Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands, on April 12.
Apr 23, 2019 9:37 AM
If you think a music festival steeped in black-metal, doom and hardcore couldn’t also be a good place to discover…
Caspar Brötzmann performs at Berlin’s SO36 during a tour for Black Axis. The guitarist’s work with his trio, Massaker, is being reissued by Southern Lord Recordings, which also will release a record by a new Brötzmann project, Bass Totem, in 2020.
Mar 4, 2019 9:56 AM
Among the most exciting and forward-thinking albums to come out early in 2019 are a pair of recordings made decades…
On June 29, the Impulse! label issued previously unreleased studio recordings by John Coltrane (left), Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner under the title Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album.
Jan 4, 2019 12:27 PM
During 2018, DownBeat published hundreds of articles and album reviews. What’s below, though, are some features and…
Bassist Buschi Niebergall (left), saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and saxophonist Willem Breuker, shown here in 1970, perform on Machine Gun, which hits its 50th anniversary this year.
Jun 27, 2018 1:08 PM
The marathon, lung-bursting howl of Peter Brötzmann’s Machine Gun, which the saxophonist self-released on his BRÖ…
Paal Nilssen-Love, drummer in The Thing, is heading out on a tour of the States with the trio.
Mar 15, 2018 12:36 PM
Scientists and philosophers through the ages have debated whether nature or nurture plays a greater role in shaping…
Jason Adasiewicz (left), Steve Noble, John Edwards and Peter Brötzmann perform at the Art Institute of Chicago on May 21.
Jul 11, 2016 12:22 PM
Before Peter Brötzmann gained renown as a musician, he was a German art student who played clarinet in a Dixieland band…
