The veteran free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann is playing in Wellington Wednesday evening at 8 pm at Old St. Paul's, 34 Mulgrave St., tickets available from undertheradar.co.nz. Brötzmann may be legendary but he is still tremendously noisy and vital from the more recent tracks I've heard. His Machine Gun from 1968 is still as sharply focused as jazz attacks get. Hope a good number of folks turns out--what better way to fight the increasingly dreary local weather than to hear some ear-blistering old school skronk? Below are a number of great video clips and concerts, to whet yr appetite if you are so inclined....

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AuthorMartinPatrick