Free Jazz Und Kinder

Reissue of the rare & infamous double 7“ originally published by FMP in 1973. Recordings from a workshop at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, April 1972, featuring 15 children (aged 8-11) and Peter Brötzmann, Fred van Hove, and Han Bennink.At the beginning of the work, the fifteen invited children aged eight to ten years were asked to come for four days in a row, so that a fixed, unchanging group could be expected. In practice, this was difficult to carry out, since every afternoon more children with their parents who had heard about this small course wanted to join
In spite of these organizational difficulties, approaches to real musical group work emerged. With the musicians’ instruments – saxophone, piano, drums – and more experimental “sound generators” – dismantled pianos, blowing tubes, etc. – the aim was to organize sounds with conversations, games, explanations and musical actions of the musicians and children and to provoke individual musical expressions of the children within fixed areas