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Fire Music ★★★★ Dir: Tom Surgal SUBMARINE DELUXE. ST A thrilling portrait of the free jazz revolt; Thurston Moore, Nels Cline produce. At 87 minutes, Fire Music isn’t much longer than saxophonist John Coltrane’s full-hour marathon through My Favorite Things in Tokyo, 1966. But Tom Surgal’s virtuoso documentary on the radical, improvising music that shattered post-bop orthodoxy in the ’60s – branded ‘free jazz’ after saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s landmark 1961 album – is as propulsive and cathartic as the art itself. The prime movers – Coleman, pianist Cecil Taylor, saxophonist Albert Ayler – mark turning points via archival interviews and performances (Taylor whipping from ballad filigree to full-blown fury; Sun Ra’s Arkestra in an auto-destruct frenzy like The Who at Monterey.) Collaborators and eyewitnesses (composer Carla Bley, the late drummer Rashied Ali) reflect on the…