Thurston Moore is no stranger to evangelising about artists and genres, and sharing his recommendations. Who else would compile and publish a list of his "350 best records of 2025"?
In a new book Now Jazz Now - co-authored with long-time associate Byron Coley, a writer and label owner, and Mats Gustafsson, a saxophonist, and published by his own Ecstatic Peace imprint - Moore enthuses about free jazz, which he discovered through Coley in the late 1980s and early 1990s, soon becoming an avid fan and collector.
By way of a taster, the Quietus invited him to pick ten "entry points" into a form of music that (rightly or wrongly) has a reputation for being fiendishly difficult to get a handle on.
I'll be honest - it mainly makes my head spin/ache, but I did particularly dip into the recommended Peter Brotzmann record, Machine Gun, as one that the Quietus' Stewart Smith suggests stands most chance of finding favour with fans of punk, metal and noise, and I can see his point. Maybe, with time, disorientation and bewilderment might be replaced by love...
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