The Peter Brotzmann Octet - Machine Gun
I think I've listened to this album about 5 times today, and I'm loving it even more with each listen. It's got Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Fred Van Hove, and Sven Ake Johansson, as well as a few other names that I don't recognize. It's got to be one of the most spastic and insane free jazz albums that I've ever heard, and it's slowly becoming one of my favourites.
The takes of Machine Gun are especially astounding, because they all have that Brotzmann trademark raunchiness while still throwing in flashbacks of bebop and Harlem jazz while still maintaining a blathering cacophony that is mostly sustained by the double drumming on the album. I'd definitely recommend this for fans of ultra free jazz, what a bloody fantastic album. If you don't listen to free jazz, you probably won't like it. This album makes Albert Ayler look like the Kenny G of free jazz, and I love Ayler.