Founded in December 1965 by [a=Fritz Novotny], his wife Kristin, [a=Sepp Mitterbauer] and [a=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 [a=Carla Bley], [a=Don Cherry], [a=Sunny Murray] or [a=Michael Mantler], some of them rock session musicians like [a=Peter Wolf (3)] or [a=Paul Fields]. Over the long timespan, elements of chamber music and Eastern European folkl…