From the Pittsburgh City Paper:

Active in expanding definitions and expectations since the 1960s, Peter Brötzmann is perhaps the elder statesman of European free jazz. The German woodwind player (and visual artist) takes winds to the extreme; the most intense and least melodic moments of John Coltrane or Albert Ayler are just a starting point in much of his work.

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