1. Curlew is an American experimental free jazz group founded by saxophone player George Cartwright in 1979

2. Brötzmann began playing free jazz in 1964, and he formed a quintet with "Peter Kowald and Sven-Åke Johansson.

3. Yet there were multiple strands within the meticulously woven style, which encompassed hushed Balladry, short blasts of free-jazz sax and metronomic …

4. Centipede were an English jazz/progressive rock/big band with more than 50 members, organized and led by the British free jazz pianist Keith Tippett

5. Joe Baiza is truly one of the great guitarists to come out of the so-called punk rock scene of southern California, "so-called" because most of Baiza's music fits more into the category of free jazz or jazz-rock