Die Wiener Free-Jazz-Avantgarde: Revolution im Hinterzimmer

• Main Author: Felber, Andreas (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Vienna; Jazz; Reform Art Unit; Masters of Unorthodox Jazz; Avantgarde; Free Jazz; Avantgarde Jazz; Avantgarde in Vienna; Avantgarde in Austria; Jazz in Austria; Free Improvisation; Free Improvised Music; Fritz Novotny (Musiker); Musiker; Wien
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There are some strange stories heard in Viennese jazz scene. Already in the second half of the 1950s, two art students, who were in touch with painters like Arnulf Rainer, Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Ernst Fuchs, experimented with free improvisation - years before this music had a name even in t...