Editing Free improvisation (section)

=== The downtown scene ===
In late 1970s New York a group of musicians came together who shared an interest in free improvisation as well as rock, jazz, contemporary classical, world music and pop. They performed at lofts, apartments, basements and venues located predominantly in [[Lower Manhattan|downtown New York]] ([[8BC]], [[Pyramid Club (New York)|Pyramid Club]], Environ, [[Roulette]], [[The Knitting Factory]] and [[Tonic (music venue)|Tonic]]) and held regular concerts of free improvisation which featured many of the prominent figures in the scene, including [[John Zorn]], [[Bill Laswell]], [[George E. Lewis]], [[Fred Frith]], [[Tom Cora]], [[Toshinori Kondo]], [[Wayne Horvitz]], [[Eugene Chadbourne]], [[Zeena Parkins]], [[Anthony Coleman]], [[Polly Bradfield]], [[Ikue Mori]], [[Robert Dick (flautist)|Robert Dick]], [[Ned Rothenberg]], [[Bob Ostertag]], [[Christian Marclay]], [[David Moss (musician)|David Moss]], [[Kramer (musician)|Kramer]] and many others. They worked with each other, independently and with many of the leading European improvisers of the time, including [[Derek Bailey (guitarist)|Derek Bailey]], [[Evan Parker]], [[Han Bennink]], [[Misha Mengelberg]], [[Peter Brötzmann]] and others. Many of these musicians continue to use improvisation in one form or another in their work.