Adventures In Modern Music this week brings you
four decades of free jazz history from the FMP label, on the
occasion of their final ever release, the career-spanning 12 CD box
set Im Rückblick – In Retrospect. The Free Music Production
label rose out of the rubble of Berlin in the late 1960s, and
played a key role in pushing the envelope of European free jazz
over the following decades. It brought new players together,
organised concerts and workshops, forged new relationships with the
audience, made connections with free jazz in the States, and
forensically documented all these varied zones of activity. Peter
Brötzmann, Alexander Schlippenbach, Fred Van Hove, Radu Malfatti
and Peter Kowald are just a few of the hundreds of players who have
participated in FMP's projects over the years. Derek Walmsley will
be playing selections from In Retrospect, including both
classic FMP sides and previously unreleased material, and talking
to Peter Brötzmann on the phone from Wuppertal, Germany about his
close involvement with FMP and its co-ordinator Jost Gebers since
the late 1960s.
Adventures In Modern Music airs every Thursday
21:00–22:30 (BST), 104.4 FM for Londoners, streamed live at
resonancefm.com for the rest of the world.