improvised music

• Music / free jazz

  Review: Trance Map +, Arnolfini – ‘Free music veteran Evan Parker still has the power to surprise’

  An excellently judged demonstration of collectivity

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• Music / Jazz

  Bristol’s month in jazz – November 2025

  the jazz is piling up faster than Autumn Leaves

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• Music / free jazz

  Legendary improviser returns to Arnolfini 55 years after first visit

  Fifty-five years after his Arnolfini debut free jazz legend Evan Parker returns

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• Music / free jazz

  Review: Westport Sound 2025, Malmesbury – ‘Small, but perfectly formed’

  A splendid cascade of the unusual delivered to a very appreciative audience

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• Music / improvised music

  Way Out West(port)

  A weekend for the musically open-minded is coming to Malmesbury

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• Music / Jazz

  Bristol’s month in jazz – October 2025

  It's a big (happy) birthday for Mr Bebop

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• Music / contemporary classical

  Review: Hidden Notes Festival, Stroud – a sequence of difference and surprises

  This programme of unclassifiable outliers delivered a real breath of fresh air

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• Music / contemporary classical

  Coming out of hiding

  This year's Hidden Notes Festival offers another rich menu of genre-bending experimentalists

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