Floss

Unwaxed

By Floss

Label: Monktail Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Blatch; Merry X-mas Mom; Stephen's Call to Brooklyn; Floss; Bruxism; Bing-dom Dom-dom; Stephen's Call to Santiago; Whitey on Mars; AD FINEM

Floss: Unwaxed

by John Kelman
August 11, 2004

For an artist who never achieved the widespread acclaim of, say, John Coltrane or Ornette Coleman, saxophonist Albert Ayler has had a surprisingly long-lasting effect on modern free jazz. Coming up as he did not through the bebop ranks, but from R&B, also lends credibility to more contemporary free artists coming to the genre through other ...