Ronald Shannon Jackson
Cecil Taylor
Vernon Reid
Melvin Gibbs
Byard Lancaster
Sonny Sharrock
Peter Brotzmann
Bill Laswell
Aiyb Dieng
James Blood Ulmer
Albert Mangelsdorff
Joseph Bowie
Wadada Leo Smith
Larry Ochs
George Adams
Bad Plus
Django Bates
Han Bennink
Ed Blackwell
Ed Thigpen?
Ernest Dawkins
Scott Fields
Mike Garson
Charles Gayle
Globe Unity Orchestra
Joe Harriott
Roy Haynes
TheoJorgensmann
Jeanne Lee
Joe McPhee
Medeski, Martin, + Wood
Misha Mengelberg
Kenny Millions
don Pullen
Sam Rivers
Alexander von Schlippenbach
David S. Ware
Matthew Shipp
Susie Ibarra
William Parker
Bill Dixon
Craig Taborn
loft jazz scene
Fred Anderson
Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge
Ken Vandermark
David Boykin
Aaron Getsug
Jeff Parker
Kevin Drumm
Nicole Mitchell
Karl E.H. Seigfried
Tim Berne
Tim Berne's Bloodcount
Borbetomagus
Lounge Lizards
James Chance
James Blood Ulmer
Sonny Sharrock
Diamanda Galas
Bill Laswell
Bill Frisell
punk jazz
Evan Parker
Archie Shepp
M-Base
Hermeto Pascoal
Kaoru Abe
Sergey Kuryokhin
Derek Bailey
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Muhal Richard Abrams
Anthony Braxton
Roscoe Mitchell
Hamid Drake
Fred Van Hove
Steve Lacy
Lol Coxhill
Vinko Globokar
Ray Anderson
Henry Kaiser
Chris Speed
Tom Abbs
Assif Tsahar
Matana Roberts
Conny Bauer
Vyacheslav Ganelin
Vladimir Tarasov
Masayuki Takayanagi
Ivo Perelman
Milford Graves
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Cecil Taylor
Vernon Reid
Melvin Gibbs
Byard Lancaster
Sonny Sharrock
Peter Brotzmann
Bill Laswell
Aiyb Dieng
James Blood Ulmer
Albert Mangelsdorff
Joseph Bowie
Wadada Leo Smith
Larry Ochs
Amalgamation of elements of jazz tradition (especially free jazz and jazz fusion of 60s-70s) with instrumentation/concepts of avant punk rock (especially dissonant strains, no wave, grindcore, hardcore). Examples: John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, James Chance & the Contortions, Lounge Lizards. Roots of punk: Velvet Underground, Stooges, MC5. Roots of avant/free jazz: Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Roscoe Mitchell, Sonny Sharrock.