Today if one thinks back to the beginnings of European or more exactly (West) German Free Jazz, the names of Manfred Schoof, von Schlippenbach, Brotzmann, Globe Unity, or Gunter Hampel immediately come to mind. Much less known is the existence of two more remarkable groups which set out to play and record the then-new music called -Free Jazz- at the end of the 1960s. The "Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden" (FJGW) was one of those ensembles which today, undeserv-edly, are almost forgotten. -- Ernst Nebhuth Continue reading
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