• Source: List of free improvising musicians and groups

This is a list of musicians and groups who compose and play free music, or free improvisation. In alphabetical order:




Musicians


Susan Alcorn – pedal steel guitar
Jason Alder – clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet
Thomas Ankersmit – saxophone, synthesizer
Albert Ayler – saxophone
Richard Barrett – electronics, sampler
Derek Bailey – guitar
Conny Bauer – trombone
Burkhard Beins – percussion
Samm Bennett – percussion, electronics
Han Bennink – percussion
Steve Beresford – piano
Jean-Jacques Birge – synthesizer
Jeb Bishop – trombone
Anthony Braxton – saxophones
John Wolf Brennan – piano, prepared piano, melodica, pipe organ
Olie Brice – double bass
Peter Brötzmann – saxophone, tárogató
Tony Buck – percussion
John Butcher – saxophone
Captain Beefheart – saxophone, clarinet, voice
Kent Carter – double bass
Graham Clark – violin
Ornette Coleman – saxophone
Tom Cora – cello, bass guitar, drums
Lol Coxhill – saxophone
Marilyn Crispell – piano
Stephen Crowe – guitar, electric guitar
Alvin Curran - electronics
Chris Cutler – percussion
Tobias Delius – saxophone
Poulomi Desai - modified sitars and electronics
Christy Doran – guitar
Mark Dresser – double bass
Kevin Drumm – guitar, synthesizer
Paul Dunmall – saxophone
Ellery Eskelin – tenor saxophone
Karlheinz Essl – electronics
Julia Feldman – voice
Simon H. Fell – double bass
Robert Fripp - guitar, mellotron
Fred Frith – guitar, violin
Cor Fuhler – piano, keyolin, synthesizer
Bernhard Gal – electronics
Joel Garten – piano
Charles Gayle – saxophone, piano, bass clarinet
Seppe Gebruers – the first improvised quartertone pianist
Richard Grayson – piano
Mats Gustafsson – saxophone, flutophone
Barry Guy – double bass
Keiji Haino – guitar, voice
Hans Hassler - accordion
Gerry Hemingway – drums
Zach Hill – drums
Killick Erik Hinds – h'arpeggione
Tim Hodgkinson – saxophone
Theo Joergensmann – basset clarinet
Ryan Jones – electric bass
Henry Kaiser – guitar
Leonel Kaplan – trumpet
Basil Kirchin – drums
Peter Kowald – double bass
Savina Yannatou – voice
Caroline Kraabel – saxophone
Steve Lacy – saxophone
Kathryn Ladano – bass clarinet
Yuri Landman – string instruments
Jeanne Lee – voice
Thomas Lehn – synthesizer
George E. Lewis – trombone, electronics
Joelle Leandre – double bass, vocals
Fred Lonberg-Holm – cello
Paul Lovens – drums
Paul Lytton – drums
Frederik Magle – organ
Radu Malfatti – trombone
Joe Maneri – saxophone, clarinet
Mario Mariani – piano, objects
Elio Martusciello – computer, guitar
Mattin
Guerino Mazzola – piano
Misha Mengelberg – piano, toys
Phil Minton – voice
Louis Moholo – drums
Gabriela Montero – piano
Michael Moore – saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Thurston Moore – guitar
Butch Morris – cornet, conductor
Jamie Muir – percussion
Stephen Nachmanovitch – violin, electric violin, viola
Lauren Newton - voice
Maggie Nicols – voice
Mary Oliver – violin, viola
Tony Oxley – percussion
Sonia Paço-Rocchia – bassoon, found and invented instruments, live electronics
Evan Parker – saxophones
William Parker – double bass
Mike Patton – voice, piano, synthesizer
Barre Phillips – double bass
Andreas Paolo Perger – guitar
Pierre Pincemaille – organ
Eddie Prevost – percussion, drums
Sun Ra — Keyboards, piano, minimoog
Randy Raine-Reusch – zheng, khaen, sho, kayageum, ichigenkin
Lee Ranaldo – guitar
Marc Rebillet — electronics, keyboards, voice
Hans Reichel – guitar, daxophone
Ernst Reijseger – cello
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – guitar
Keith Rowe – guitar
John Russell – guitar
Paul Rutherford – trombone
Frederic Rzewski
Carlos Sandoval – gloves with sensors
Giancarlo Schiaffini – trombone
Alexander von Schlippenbach – piano
Steven Schoenberg – piano
Irene Schweizer – piano
Matthew Shipp – piano
Gary Smith – guitar
John Stevens – percussion, trumpet
György Szabados – piano
Cecil Taylor – piano
Benedict Taylor – viola
Pat Thomas – piano, keyboards
John Tilbury – piano
Keith Tippett – piano
Julie Tippetts – voice
Tommy Vig – vibraphone, drums
Bernard Vitet – trumpet
Voice Crack – electronics
Philipp Wachsmann – violin
John Bruce Wallace – electric guitar
Jane Wang (composer and musician) – double bass
Trevor Watts – saxophone
Kenny Wheeler – trumpet
Wolter Wierbos – trombone
Wu Fei - guzheng
Otomo Yoshihide – guitar, turntable
Reynaldo Young – guitar, electronics
Carlos Zingaro – violin, electronics
John Zorn – saxophone
Frank Zappa – Guitar
Jerry Garcia – Guitar, Face Stealer
Bob Weir – Guitar
Phil Lesh – Bass Guitar
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums, Percussion
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – Hammond organ, Harmonica
Keith Godchaux – Piano
Trey Anastasio – Guitar, Face Melter
Mike Gordon – Bass Guitar
Page McConnell – Piano, Keyboards
Jon Fishman – Drums




Groups


A Band
AMM
Borbetomagus
Brotherhood of Breath
EOTO
Feminist Improvising Group
Fred Frith Trio
Goose
Grateful Dead
Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza
Henry Cow
Henry Now
Islak Köpek
King Crimson
Last Exit
M.I.M.E.O.
Massacre
MATH
Maybe Monday
Mujician
Musica Elettronica Viva
nmperign
Phish
poire z
Scatter
Shaking Ray Levis
Skeleton Crew
Spontaneous Music Ensemble
Storm & Stress
Supersilent
Triangulation
Un Drame Musical Instantane
Wolf Eyes
Zoochosis
Zoviet France
Pandemonium




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