free jazz

Birds radio Every Noise

164 artists · 314 plays across 168 shows

Share of each year's plays

3.2% 2020

3.0% 2021

2.5% 2022

3.1% 2023

2.1% 2024

6.0% 2025

6.1% 2026

Neighbors

avant-garde jazz jazz avant-garde experimental jazz free improvisation hard bop jazz saxophone bebop cool jazz contemporary post-bop contemporary jazz modern free jazz

Artists

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plays

1 Jeff Parker 19

2 Ben LaMar Gay 16

3 Don Cherry 11

4 Makaya McCraven 11

5 Jaimie Branch 9

6 Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath 8

7 Pharoah Sanders 8

8 Damon Locks 7

9 Black Monument Ensemble 7

10 Irène Schweizer 7

11 Miles Davis 7

12 Mike Reed 7

13 Sun Ra 7

14 Shabaka and the Ancestors 6

15 Hamid Drake 6

16 Nicole Mitchell 6

17 Johnny Dyani 5

18 John Coltrane 5

19 William Parker 5

20 Vijay Iyer 5

21 Marcus Gilmore 5

22 Tomeka Reid 5

23 Bobby Hutcherson 5

24 Yusef Lateef 5

25 Roscoe Mitchell 4

26 Rahsaan Roland Kirk 4

27 Dave Douglas 4

28 Kahil El'Zabar 4

29 Archie Shepp 4

30 Junius Paul 4

31 Max Roach 4

32 Alice Coltrane 4

33 Andreas Werliin 4

34 Marc Ribot 4

35 The Lounge Lizards 4

36 John Zorn 4

37 Stanley Cowell 4

38 Sonny Rollins 4

39 Dave Burrell 3

40 Freddie Hubbard 3

41 Jimmy Giuffre 3

42 Chick Corea 3

43 Eric Dolphy 3

44 James Brandon Lewis 3

45 Johan Berthling 3

46 Phil Ranelin 3

47 Harry Beckett 3

48 Mary Halvorson 3

49 Sex Mob 3

50 Lee Morgan 2

51 The Sound And Space Ensembles 2

52 Ray Anderson 2

53 Mark Helias 2

54 Gerry Hemingway 2

55 Beaver Harris 2

56 Irreversible Entanglements 2

57 Charles Mingus 2

58 David Murray 2

59 Leena Conquest 2

60 Lewis Barnes 2

61 Kahil El Zabar 2

62 Ritual Trio 2

63 Oneness Of Juju 2

64 Sun Ra Arkestra 2

65 Two Bands And A Legend 2

66 Roy Campbell Pyramid Trio 2

67 Joe Harriott 2

68 Andrew D'Angelo 2

69 Sonny Sharrock 2

70 Joe Lovano 2

71 Ken Vandermark 2

72 Henry Threadgill Sextett 2

73 Sun Ra & His Arkestra 2

74 Binker and Moses 2

75 Binker Golding 2

76 Roland Kirk Quartet 2

77 McCoy Tyner 2

78 Wendell Harrison 2

79 Ed Blackwell 2

80 Kresten Osgood 2

81 Coco Elysses 2

82 JoVia Armstrong 2

83 Jesper Zeuthen 2

84 Chico Freeman 2

85 Trio of Bloom 2

86 Nels Cline 2

87 Craig Taborn 2

88 Linda May Han Oh 2

89 Sylvie Courvoisier 2

90 Tyshawn Sorey 2

91 Sam Rivers 1

92 Rob Brown 1

93 Eri Yamamoto 1

94 Air 1

95 Joseph Jarman 1

96 Oliver Nelson 1

97 Evan Parker 1

98 Joe Mcphee 1

99 Matthew Shipp 1

100 Rob Mazurek 1

101 Tim Berne's Snakeoil 1

102 Steve Lacy 1

103 Marilyn Crispell 1

104 Paul Motian 1

105 Ornette Coleman 1

106 Albert Ayler 1

107 Joe Maneri 1

108 World Saxophone Quartet 1

109 Joe Henderson 1

110 Matana Roberts 1

111 Mal Waldron 1

112 Wadada Leo Smith 1

113 Andrew Cyrille 1

114 Anthony Braxton 1

115 Randy Weston 1

116 Gil Evans 1

117 Daniel Carter 1

118 Ingrid Laubrock 1

119 Derek Bailey 1

120 Andrew Hill 1

121 Pierre Dørge 1

122 New Jungle Orchestra 1

123 John Tchicai 1

124 Sounds of Liberation 1

125 Don Hünerberg 1

126 Peter Gillespie 1

127 Walt Dickerson 1

128 Edgar Leon Bateman Jr. 1

129 Wilbur Ware 1

130 Louis Moholo 1

131 Alexis Lombre 1

132 Chicago Underground Quartet 1

133 Dannie Richmond 1

134 George Adams 1

135 The Southern University Jazz Ensemble 1

136 Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few 1

137 Chicago Underground Duo 1

138 Omri Ziegele 1

139 Amiri Baraka 1

140 Sabir Mateen 1

141 Darryl Foster 1

142 Bill McHenry 1

143 Adi Zukanovic 1

144 Matthias Petri 1

145 Jakob Høyer 1

146 Cosmic Ear 1

147 Adegoke Steve Colson 1

148 Iqua Colson 1

149 Dollar Brand 1

150 Drew Gress 1

151 Max Jaffe 1

152 Philip Cohran & The Artistic Heritage Ensemble 1

153 Tony Burkill 1

154 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble 1

155 Shrimp Boat 1

156 The Jimmy Giuffre Trio 1

157 Marshall Allen 1

158 John Barry Orchestra 1

159 Bill Bruford 1

160 The Parliaments 1

161 Wendy Eisenberg 1

162 Lindha Kallerdahl 1

163 Trevor Watts 1

164 Moiré Music Drum Orchestra 1