Free Jazz

50 tracks by 31 artists, spanning 1960–2021 — every one chosen and shelved by a person, not a model. This page is the room’s free jazz shelf, counted honestly.

0 of 50 tracks placed by a hand on the room’s four dials · 50 still waiting — a genre default, a placeholder, or a reading estimated from the record rather than taken from it

Across time

Heaviest in the 1970s — 10 of 49 dated tracks.

The biggest shelves

• Bill Frisell8 tracks
• Alice Coltrane5 tracks
• Sun Ra5 tracks
• Pharoah Sanders3 tracks
• June Tyson2 tracks
• Wendell Harrison2 tracks
• Alice Coltrane;Igor Stravinsky1 track
• Alice Coltrane;Pharoah Sanders1 track
• Andrew Hill1 track
• Art Ensemble Of Chicago1 track
• Barre Phillips1 track
• Bennie Maupin1 track
• Bill Orcutt1 track
• Carlos Santana1 track
• Christian Lillinger;Kaja Draksler;Antonis Anissegos;Elias Stemeseder;Lucy Railton;Petter Eldh;Robert Landfermann;Christopher Dell;Roland Neffe1 track
• David S. Ware Quartet1 track
• Dollar Brand;Abdullah Ibrahim Orchestra1 track
• Don Cherry;Naná Vasconcelos;Moki Cherry;Helen Eggert;Steen Claesson;Roger Burk;Anana Rydvall;Marianne Rydvall;Lil Stalheim;Nikko Stalheim;Ole Sophus Amfred;Mona Barbera1 track
• Ernst Reijseger1 track
• KHAN JAMAL1 track
• Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio1 track
• Kenny Wheeler1 track
• Leon Thomas1 track
• Lol Coxhill;Morgan Fisher1 track

Where this shelf plays

• Stray Hour7 artists in common
• Long Shadows6 artists in common
• Smoke Pillar6 artists in common
• Threshold Crossings5 artists in common
• Threshold4 artists in common

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hand-curated by zubair jeewanjee · no algorithm

Counts computed from the room’s own catalogue on 2026-10-06. Tracks that arrived carrying this genre’s default settings are counted here but held out of the room’s maps until somebody listens — a placeholder is not a placement. — Zubair Jeewanjee · zubair.jeewanjee@gmail.com