Book Extract

Read an extract from Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution And The Politics Of Improvisation

April 2025

Read an extract from Daniel Spicer’s Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution And The Politics Of Improvisation, in which the author reconsiders the connections between the German saxophonist's playing and that of Albert Ayler

Essay

“An exceptional human being”: tributes to Peter Brötzmann

June 2023

William Parker, Joe McPhee, Mats Gustafsson, Shoji Hano, Sven-Åke Johansson, Heather Leigh, John Corbett, Marino Pliakas, Bill Laswell and Hamid Drake share memories and impressions of the German saxophonist who died on 22 June aged 82.

The Portal

Peter Brötzmann (6 March 1941–22 June 2023)

June 2023

As a tribute to the German saxophonist who has died at the age of 82, we have made David Keenan’s epic two-part 2012 interview, as well as Daniel Spicer’s Primer guide to Brötzmann’s many recordings, free to read in our online library