Thurston Moore is to publish NOW JAZZ NOW: 100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings [1960-80] via his Ecstatic Peace Library imprint.

A collaboration between Moore, fellow musicians Mats Gustafsson, Neneh Cherry, Joe McPhee and music writer Byron Coley, the book spans 277-pages of album art, labels, sleeve notes and collector musings on their life-long obsessions of record collecting, with a focus on the recorded history of Free Jazz and Free Improvisation.

The book is published on December 5 and is available to pre-order here.