submitted on Sun, 11/16/2008 - 07:04 in Jazz Group by Mike_Longo Similar media
Free Zone is a festival within a festival, holding a regular spot at the more mainstream-inclined Appleby weekender in England. Due to the dreaded specter of funding difficulties there was no 2008 event and the festival's future may well be doomed. Customarily, the Free Zone program features a large roster of players, improvising in many permutations, but the 2007 session featured only three artists--perennial host Evan Parker and invitees reed man Ned Rothenberg and Italian guitarist Paolo Angeli-- for budgetary and/or creative reasons...
Source: allaboutjazz
Author: Martin Longley
