[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 27 Free Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Peter Brötzmann

[Minor Compositions]

*Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 27 Free Jazz, Revolution and the 
Politics of Peter Brötzmann*
https://youtu.be/lBx9tk70lGg

For this episode we have a discussion of the book Peter Brötzmann: 
Free-Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Improvisation with its author 
Daniel Spicer and long time comrade and fellow radical theorist / free 
jazz musician Richard Gilman-Opalsky. In it we discuss the 
countercultural and artistic milieus that shape Brötzmann as an artist, 
the importance of his work as an organizer and catalyst, and the weird 
and unfortunate way that radical politics is increasingly edited out of 
the history of free jazz.

More about the book. Here Daniel Spicer has written “the first ever, 
full-length, English-language biography of one of the most fascinating 
and inspiring personalities in the history of Western improvised music – 
and one of the key artistic figures to emerge from the socio-cultural 
tumult of the 1960s. Drawing on extensive interviews with Brötzmann and 
key associates, it traces the German saxophonist’s crucial role as a 
pioneer of European free jazz, his restless travels and collaborations 
and his eventual superstardom, examining the life and work of a fiercely 
uncompromising artist with a reputation for gruff intensity and total 
commitment. Digging deep into the history and aesthetics of free jazz in 
Europe and beyond, it provides detailed analysis of music by Brötzmann 
and other major figures, while positioning Brötzmann’s work – and the 
wider free jazz milieu – in the context of the revolutionary left-wing, 
humanist and utopian ideals that inspired and underpinned it. Both 
intimate and wide-ranging, it tells the story of a man and a music that 
changed the world.”

Bios: Daniel Spicer is a writer, broadcaster, improviser and poet. He 
writes about music for The Wire, Jazzwise, Songlines, WeJazz and The 
Quietus. He is the author of The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion: 
Anadolu Psych (1965 – 1980). Richard Gilman-Opalsky is professor of 
political theory and philosophy in the School of Politics and 
International Affairs at the University of Illinois. He is the author of 
numerous books including the recently released Communist Ontologies. An 
Inquiry into the Construction of New Forms of Life (co-written with 
Bruno Gullì).

Intro / outdo music: Unreleased bootleg of the Peter Brötzmann Chicago 
Tentet - Live in London, April 2011

The Minor Compositions podcast is in made in collaboration with Firefly 
Frequencies: https://fireflyfrequencies.org
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