Jazz Articles about Alexander von Schlippenbach

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Schlippenbach Trio: Winterreise

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 28, 2007

Avere un “luogo sonoro" a cui tornare periodicamente è una pratica che per molti improvvisatori risulta fondamentale, oltre che gradita. Non è difficile comprenderne il perché, dal momento che l'avventurarsi quotidianamente - e spesso nei contesti più differenti - nell'ignoto della “composizione istantanea" trova nella verifica periodica con un gruppo di colleghi di lungo corso il naturale contraltare dialettico. Per Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker e Paul Lovens questo avviene da quasi quarant'anni. Come ha ricordato lo stesso Schlippenbach in ...

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Alexander Von Schlippenbach: Twelve Tone Tales - Voll.1 e 2

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 29, 2007

A quasi trent’anni da Piano Solo (FMP - 1977), Alexander Von Schlippenbach ritorna alla registrazione solitaria con il pianoforte e lo fa realizzando un sogno a lungo coltivato. Quello di registrare un album intero utilizzando la tecnica dodecafonica elaborata da Schoenberg, appresa negli studi di Colonia con il maestro e compositore Bernd Alois Zimmermann, qua e là presente nei suoi precedenti lavori, soprattutto quelli con la Globe Unity Orchestra, ma mai utilizzata per realizzare un unico progetto. In Twelve Tones ...

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Schlippenbach Trio: Winterreise

by Nic Jones
December 8, 2006

These musicians have been working together on and off for a long time, and perhaps the only thing they have in common with the “classic" lineup of the John Coltrane quartet is the fact that they work with such notable empathy that every disc they put out is in the most profound sense a document of a work in progress.

Taken from two concerts given in Cologne in German in 2004 and 2005, the two pieces that make up this ...

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Alexander von Schlippenbach: Compression & Monk's Casino

by A. Henkin
June 2, 2005

The career of most artists follows one of two paths: linear (Pablo Picasso or Gato Barbieri) or circular (Chick Corea). Few can or wish to maintain multiple personalities creatively. In music, there are more instances of this kind of multi-tasking and German pianist Alex von Schlippenbach has proven himself especially adept. In the January 2004 issue of this gazette, two CDs by Schlippenbach were reviewed; The first was a ecstatic new entry into the catalogue of the ...

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Alexander von Schlippenbach: Monk's Casino

by Derek Taylor
May 5, 2005

Alexander von Schlippenbach Monk's Casino Intakt Records 2005

Monk covers are as regular as the tides these days. Everyone from Wynton Marsalis on one end, to Steve Lacy at the other, has seemingly picked the songbook clean. Most have mined it for the more accessible ore and left the more erudite entries, tunes like “Sixteen and “North of the Sunset, untapped. Into this arena of precedence and cherry-picking Alexander von Schlippenbach audaciously ups the ...

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Alexander von Schlippenbach/Carlos Bechegas: Open Speech

by John Kelman
May 17, 2004

For the third release on flautist Carlos Bechegas’ new Forward.rec label, he continues to draw on a series of duets recorded in July ’03, this time with German free pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach. Recorded at the Jazz a Luz Festival in France, Open Speech continues Bechegas’ search for interplay and interconnection. Unfortunately the results are nowhere near as successful as his release with flautist Michel Edelin, Open Frontiers , recorded three days later. While Bechegas and Schlippenbach are, of course, ...

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Alexander von Schlippenbach: Broomriding

by John Eyles
December 11, 2003

Apart from using his Psi label to re-release his old Incus recordings and to put out new recordings of himself in a variety of contexts, Evan Parker is also using the label to release recordings by friends and colleagues, material that might otherwise have been overlooked. So far, the Psi recordings without Parker have all hit the bulls eye-- 'Smatter by Gerd Dudek, Dream Sequence by Kenny Wheeler, and now Broomriding. Of course, Alexander von Schlippenbach and Paul ...