Editing Free jazz (section)

== In the world ==
[[File:Abdullah Ibrahim 06N4688.jpg|thumb|Dollar Brand]] 
[[File:Tomasz Stanko.jpg|thumb|Tomasz Stańko]]

Founded in 1967, the [[Quatuor de Jazz Libre du Québec]] was Canada's most notable early free jazz outfit.<ref>Crépon, Pierre. [http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD72/PoD72Jazz_libre.html "Free Jazz/Québec Libre: Le Quatuor de Jazz Libre du Québec, 1967-1975"], ''Point of Departure'', September 2020.</ref> Outside of North America, free jazz scenes have become established in Europe and Japan. Alongside the aforementioned [[Joe Harriott]], saxophonists [[Peter Brötzmann]], [[Evan Parker]], trombonist [[Conny Bauer]], guitarist [[Derek Bailey (guitarist)|Derek Bailey]], pianists [[François Tusques]], [[Fred Van Hove]], [[Misha Mengelberg]], drummer [[Han Bennink]], saxophonist and bass clarinetist [[Willem Breuker]] were among the most well-known early European free jazz performers.<ref name="Heffley">{{cite book |last1=Heffley |first1=Mike |title=Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz |date=2005 |publisher=Yale University Press}}</ref> European free jazz can generally be seen as approaching [[free improvisation]], with an ever more distant relationship to jazz tradition. Specifically Brötzmann has had a significant impact on the free jazz players of the United States.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Beaumont-Thomas |first=Ben |date=2023-06-23 |title=Peter Brötzmann, legend of free jazz, dies at 82 |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/23/peter-brotzmann-legend-of-free-jazz-dies-at-82 |access-date=2023-06-24 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Japan's first free jazz musicians included drummer [[Masahiko Togashi]], guitarist [[Masayuki Takayanagi]], pianists [[Yosuke Yamashita]] and [[Masahiko Satoh]], saxophonist [[Kaoru Abe]], bassist [[Motoharu Yoshizawa]], and trumpeter [[Itaru Oki]].<ref>Crépon, Pierre. [http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD67/PoD67Japan.html "Omnidirectional Projection: Teruto Soejima and Japanese Free Jazz"], ''Point of Departure'', June 2019.</ref> A relatively active free jazz scene behind the [[iron curtain]] produced musicians like [[Janusz Muniak]], [[Tomasz Stańko]], [[Zbigniew Seifert]], [[Vyacheslav Ganelin]] and [[Vladimir Tarasov]]. Some international jazz musicians have come to North America and become immersed in free jazz, most notably [[Ivo Perelman]] from Brazil and [[Gato Barbieri]] of Argentina (this influence is more evident in Barbieri's early work).

South African artists, including early [[Dollar Brand]], [[Zim Ngqawana]], [[Chris McGregor]], [[Louis Moholo]], and [[Dudu Pukwana]] experimented with a form of free jazz (and often big-band free jazz) that fused experimental improvisation with African rhythms and melodies.<ref>Orlov, Piotr. [https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/blue-notes-south-african-jazz-guide "How South Africa's Blue Notes Helped Invent European Free Jazz"], ''Bandcamp'', September 2020.</ref> American musicians like [[Don Cherry (jazz)|Don Cherry]], John Coltrane, [[Milford Graves]], and [[Pharoah Sanders]] integrated elements of the music of [[Music of Africa|Africa]], [[Music of India|India]], and the Middle East for [[World music|world]]-influenced free jazz.