Although the media label of “the loudest, heaviest free-jazz player of them all” pursued the saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, who has died aged 82, for much of his career, his music and his thinking about his art amounted to a great deal more than pyrotechnics.
For an artist who spent the best part of six decades spurning what music-lovers of many genres might consider a catchy hook, Brötzmann drew a remarkably devoted international audience into his personal soundworld.
