Jazz enthusiasts now regard "Free Fall" as a masterpiece. Article continues below this ad Giuffre's path remained unique until his death from pneumonia in 2008.

While Jimmy Giuffre did not create free improvisation, he was certainly part of the birthing team. It’s Jimmy Giuffre’s birthday. An unseasonable snow covers the ground around the converted old New ...

Jimmy Giuffre, the saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger and composer whose work encompassed a range including big band scoring, cool West Coast jazz, minimalist trios and free improvisation, died ...

The commercial failure of Free Fall led to him getting dropped by Columbia—he wouldn’t make another album as a leader until 1971—and the trio with Bley and Swallow soon disbanded, but ...

Jimmy Giuffre is a spare, soft-spoken Texan who distrusts the word jazz, but plays some of the best jazz to be heard these days—most of it of his own composition. Giuffre (pronounced joo-free) ...

But where early classics either incorporated American folk idioms or, like 1961's Free Fall (Columbia) were thorny thickets of free jazz exploration, Music for People, Birds, Butterflies & Mosquitoes ...

Composer and jazz clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre, who died April 24, was an early pioneer of both the cool jazz and avant-garde jazz movements of the '50s and '60s. In Giuffre's honor, WGBH presents an ...