which particular 'avant garde jazz' artists are you accusing of pseudery - NAME NAMES. what is that they are 'pretending' to be, or to play, that marks them out as pseuds? are you saying all free jazzers are charlatans, and if not, how do we distinguish between pseud and non-pseud?

most of the free jazz I've heard + loved seems to me to be entirely transparent, straightfoward and - in America at least - to be built upon a belief in authenticity+sincerity that's no diff from the devotional nakedness of soul + gospel, which never ever get accused of pseudery or similar bs

(I trust you're not just making unfounded and unthought-through generalisations about a type music that YOU don't happen to like or understand very much)

RIDICULE IS NOTHING TO BE SCARED OF