Jazz Articles about Alfred Harth

Trio Viriditas: Live at Vision Festival VI

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 4, 2009

Il Trio Viriditas si era da poco costituito quando nel giugno 2001 partecipò al Vision Festival, dimostrando di possedere coesione e una decisa fisionomia. Purtroppo il gruppo ebbe vita breve per la prematura scomparsa di Wilber Morris avvenuta circa un anno dopo. Salvo alcune cesure sfumate, decise evidentemente in fase di montaggio, la live performance presenta un flusso di musica continuo e unitario, in cui si concretizzano situazioni vibranti, senza momenti di stanchezza o ripensamenti. Nulla di nuovo, ma una ...

Alfred Harth: Forty Years of Synaesthetic Improvisation

by Clifford Allen
January 5, 2009

Multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer and visual artist Alfred Harth was born near Frankfurt in 1949. He first recorded at age twenty with the ensemble Just Music, with whom he recorded two LPs, one of which was issued on ECM.

Throughout the 1970s he worked with musicians like pianist Nicole Van Den Plas, drummer Sven-Ake Johansson, bassist Peter Kowald, trumpeter Michael Sell and others in West European free music. In the late '70s, he became interested in punk ...