Jazz Articles about Globe Unity

Globe Unity Orchestra & the Choir of the NDR-Broadcast: Hamburg '74

by Jerry D'Souza
December 11, 2004

Alexander von Schlippenbach wrote the first tune on this record as a radio project for the NDR Jazz Workshop in 1974. From his imagination sprung a conjunction of classical music and of jazz (as he and the Globe Unity Orchestra fermented it). It would have been so easy to let the two entwine and create a hybrid, but given the impetus and the direction the orchestra takes, that would be all too facile an approach. While they bring into play ...

Globe Unity 67 & 70: Alexander Von Schlippenbach

by Andrey Henkin
October 1, 2001

Free jazz recordings have been the subjects of more scrutiny than perhaps any other kind of music. Hailed effusively as visionary and cosmic or derided thoroughly as shamelessly indulgent and noisy. While much free jazz can be ineffective, it removes one variable from the equation of recording: material. Sessions rooted in basic improvisatory frameworks rather than strict song structures allow what is important in jazz to be fully responsible: the musicians.

Perhaps then, it is best, despite being tedious, to ...