Well, if there's one band you're gonna listen to for the rest of your life, one band to bring to a deserted island, one land to explore every crevice of... KING CRIMSON! Begin with Red from 1974 and In The Court Of The Crimson King from 1969. Wait with everything from the nineties and forward, check out the eighties if you're more into pop than ordinary prog rock.

I very much agree. Red is probably my favorite. Though check out The Collectible King Crimson - Live in Ashbury Park, 1974 for one of their best concerts ever.

I was informed that there were 2 Pozegas, so I apologise for the misinformation, no Great serbia there. The lead man send me a nice mail, informing of my error, he was quite nice. I'm sorry again

more kinda-sorta shameless self promotion:

The New Haven Improvisers Collective (which I may or may not be affiliated with...) does pretty weird, avant-jazz in various capacities and configurations. All of their current stuff can be streamed here:
http://music.nhic-records.com/

If you're interested in a combination of jazz & noise (I think there are other influences as well, but these two stand out), I suggest you try Ground-Zero I recently listened to their "Plays Standard" album and I was really impressed by the originality and catchyness (in some songs)

It's possible that flames suggested this to me and I forgot about it. If so, I don't want to take credit for the "discovery" (don't know how popular they are)

Anyone liked the Pierre Labbé 4tet? They fit with the name of this thread. I will try to publish more reviews of exp/ag Jazz. The cd itself is great!

Who knows what you mean with eclectic swing ag jazz??? That could be lot's of things. It's hard to find albums for someone else when he is starting out with a genre. The best idea is to keep looking!

http://www.actuellecd.com/en/

From my hometown, they are a label that specialize into experimental jazz, musique actuelle, abstract, musique concrète, etc. - often all on the same albums. And then you gotta listen to all the masters such as Coltrane, Sun Ra, Pharaoh Sanders, Albert Ayler, Miles Davis, etc., etc., etc., ... you will find plenty of eclectic and weirdo swing in there. Those guys basically invented experimental and avant-garde jazz, which was also called free jazz or cosmic jazz back then. So it's not true that all jazz as such is experimental, as there are many strong held traditions within jazz, which had to be destroyed in order to move forward. Listen to pre-50ies Jazz and listen to post-60ies Jazz. Two different worlds. But still, many contemporary jazz artists only follow the rules and never invent anything new. As with most other genres, there are the followers and there are the trailblazers.