1.   Among musicians, jazz is good, and free jazz is even better.

2.   A hippie aura surrounds much free jazz, and its liberationist rhetoric can seem antiquated, but some players can still invigorate old sources of power and pride.

3.   But now and then, like a Model T turning into a Humvee, he plays the rumbles and splashes of free jazz.

4.   Cody Dickinson played skittering drum solos that verged on free jazz while Luther Dickinson had a huge arsenal of techniques.

5.   Free jazz on Saturday nights, a gospel choir on Sunday nights.

6.   Free jazz in the park, a world-class tenor at the arts center.

7.   If New York loft musicians were the action painters of free jazz, these Chicagoans were its constructivists, working through appropriation and collage.

8.   It is a graceful collage of free jazz and art rock.

9.   Lately, Frisell has added bluegrass and country to a wide-ranging palette that touches on be-bop, free jazz, blues and rock.

10.   The esoteric dissonances of free jazz had driven away much of the audience, leaving few established clubs that showcased young musicians.