Free jazz, on the other hand, is explicitly about the almost inconceivable freedom that arises from the possibilities inherent in the prospect of people working together. The members of Schoof’s big group play together as though their love for those possibilities were practically bursting out of them. The degree of their freedom is limited only by their imagination; each freely undertaken act of improvisation takes place within a broader context of free response, incomparable to anything in nature since the deciding factor in the sound being produced is goodwill. |