The first two tracks of this album reissue & remaster the 1971 self-released album by the German free jazz band Total Music Association of Hans-Jorg Hussong on (saxophones), Wilfried Eichorn (clarinet & sax), Andreas Boje (trombone), Erich Schroder (viola), Helmut Zimmer (piano), Matthias Boje (double bass) and Rudi Theilmann (drums), along with a 1988 studio session.
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Andreas Boje-trombone
Wilfried Eichhorn-bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
Hans-Jorg Hussong-baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, composition
Erich Schroder-viola
Helmut Zimmer-piano
Matthias Boje-double bass
Rudi Theilmann-drums
Willi Schneider-drums
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Label: NoBusiness
Catalog ID: NBCD 145
Squidco Product Code: 30985
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2021
Country: Lithuania
Packaging: Jewel Case
Tracks 1 and 2 recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, in Ludwigsburg, Germany, on July 17, 1971, by Martin Wieland. Track 3 recorded at Finest Song studio in Hamm, Westfalen, Germany, on July 3rd, 1988. Originally self-released in 1971 as a vinyl record on the Total Music Association label as catalog code T.M.A. 001.
The first two tracks of this album reissue & remaster the 1971 self-released album by the German free jazz band Total Music Association of Hans-Jorg Hussong on (saxophones), Wilfried Eichorn (clarinet & sax), Andreas Boje (trombone), Erich Schroder (viola), Helmut Zimmer )(piano), Matthias Boje (double bass) and Rudi Theilmann (drums), along with a 1988 studio session. Though a lesser known ensemble from the earliest years of European Free Jazz, this album rightly brings out of obscurity the superb talent and creative power of this outstanding band.
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Andreas Boje Andreas Boje is a German trombonist and trumpet player. He is known for the groups Berliner Austausch Dienst, The Berlin Jazz Workshop Orchestra, and Total Music Association. ^ Hide Bio for Andreas Boje • Show Bio for Wilfried Eichhorn Wilfried Eichhorn was a German reeds player and also violinist. He was born May 27,1939 - and died September 24, 2017. For his musician's friends Eichhorn's nom de guerre was "Rimskij". He was a member of groups Fourmenonly, Frederic Rabold Crew, The Modern Jazz Quintet Karlsruhe, and Total Music Association. ^ Hide Bio for Wilfried Eichhorn • Show Bio for Hans-Jorg Hussong "Hans-Jörg Hussong is a German saxophonist. Born December 8, 1947 in Weisenheim am Sand, Germany." ^ Hide Bio for Hans-Jorg Hussong • Show Bio for Rudi Theilmann "Rudolf "Rudi" Theilmann (* 3. April 1942 in Pforzheim ) is a German art historian and jazz - drummer . Rudolf Theilmann passed his Abitur at the Kepler-Gymnasium Pforzheim in 1962 and then studied art history, classical archeology, philosophy and economic and social history at the University of Heidelberg . In 1971 he received his doctorate under Ewald M. Vetter with a thesis on " Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's Karlsruhe School". Since 1971 he has worked as a research assistant at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe . From 1998 until his retirement in 2002 he was head of the copper engraving cabinet there. He also built up the "Archive of Baden Artists" in the State Art Gallery in Karlsruhe. Theilmann has also been a drummer since 1959. At first he played old-time jazz with the Delta Rhythm Kings (record recorded in 1960), but quickly switched to hard bop . From 1965 he played in the Modern Jazz Quintet Karlsruhe (with Herbert Joos , Wilfried Eichhorn, Helmut Zimmer, Claus Bühler, among others ), with whom he found his own access to free jazz , received a first prize at the Amateur Jazz Festival Zurich in 1969 and performed in 1970 performed at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival. The records recorded with this group received "at most praise from the specialist press." From 1972 he was a member of the resulting group Fourmenonly , which existed until 1977 and recorded two more records. He then played in various ensembles and turned to improvisation music . From 1984 he made music together with Helmut Bieler-Wendt in the quartet DFTh + HB-W. From 1994 he formed a duo with Bieler-Wendt (book / CD free play , 2000). On behalf of the Goethe Institute , he made guest appearances in Egypt, Greece, Lebanon and Cyprus. In Karlsruhe he was one of the founders of the jazz club, of which he was program designer from 1983 to 2007." ^ Hide Bio for Rudi Theilmann
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Track Listing:
1. Walpurgisnacht 17:07
2. Incubus-Succubus-Pestilentia 13:37
3. Improvisation 21:20
Improvised Music
Jazz
Free Improvisation
European Improvisation, Composition and Experimental Forms
Septet recordings
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