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Lauren Newton

This American-born vocalist/composer made a name for herself in Germany, first being a singer with Mathias Rüegg’s Vienna Art Orchestra, then with a bunch of European avant-gardists, including Fritz Hauser, Jon Rose, and Vladimir Tarasov. Newton transferred to European countries in 1974 after finding a level in music in the …

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Mathias Rüegg

b. 8 Dec 1952, Zurich, Switzerland. Through the 70s Rüegg performed piano with a number of bands while learning composition and organizing in Graz and Vienna, where he ultimately settled and produced the Vienna Artwork Orchestra (1977) and afterwards the Vienna Artwork Choir (1983). Well known members from the Orchestra …

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Herbert Joos

b. 21 March 1940, Karlsruhe, Germany. Joos analyzed flügelhorn, trumpet and bass, but additionally takes on baritone-horn and alphorn. Within the 1st fifty percent of the 70s he was an associate of Contemporary Jazz Quintet, New Jazz Outfit as well as the Fourmenonly group. During this time period he also …

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Vienna Art Orchestra

Within the jazz globe, Vienna is approximately as definately not New York’s Lincoln Center as you may get. It comes after that Mathias Rüegg’s Vienna Artwork Orchestra provides about just as much in keeping with Wynton Marsalis’ Lincoln Middle big band being a Sacher torte provides using a Hostess Glass …

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