2018. For Gérard Marais, guitarist with Dharma (the quintet), Albert Ayler's instruction to play your own music was the detonator. This did not fall on deaf ears, and was particularly appropriate as it would ..

2004. 'Schuller is a drummer who starts at the boundaries and then extends them. He can take the music through difficult and surprising changes with astonishing economy.' - All About Jazz 'Schuller's cha..

2018. Dharma (as they were simply known at the time when they were still playing) englobed all the incarnations of the group: trio, quartet (essentially as a live band) and quintet. It was built around the stable co..

2018. In an interview with Jazz Magazine in the early 1970s, Dharma, as a collective voice, outlined their method: "we try to reach, within free jazz, the same sort of rhythmic cohesion as in bop, a cohesion ba..