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The Reform Art Unit

Band, *1965 AT, Vienna
Jazz

Founded in December 1965 by Fritz Novotny, his wife Kristin, Sepp Mitterbauer and Muhammad Malli, this pioneering Vienna based improvistional jazz collective saw the contribution of more than 200 musicians over 4 1/2 decades, many of them giants of free & avant-garde jazz like Carla Bley, Don Cherry, Sunny Murray or Michael Mantler, some of them rock session musicians like Peter Wolf (3) or Paul Fields. Over the long timespan, elements of chamber music and Eastern European folklore were also incorporated. The Reform Art Unit is also associated with the Viennese School For Free Improvisation.

Members

	Franz Koglmann fh, tr *1947 AT
	Muhammad Malli ss, perc 1940-2012 AT
	Günther Rabl cb, perc *1953 AT
	Giselher Smekal p *1945 AT
	Fritz Novotny fl *1940 AT
	Paul Fields vn *1943 AT
	Karl Wilhelm Krbavac gam, vl AT
	Sepp Mitterbauer tr
	Heinz Jäger b *1955 AT
	Peter Wolf key *1952 US
	Joseph Traindl tb 1947-2008 AT