Jan Lippert

Jan Lippert Ensemble: Play Attention

by Eric J. Iannelli
September 6, 2005

Six years ago, Jan Lippert released an album on the small Storyville label entitled Imprints. It was only his second disc as leader, but he managed to attract the interest and assistance of Michael Brecker--no mean feat for a jazz guitarist little known outside his native Denmark. Play Attention, Lippert's third release, has been a long time in coming; and instead of looking abroad for performers with Brecker's kind of international stature, he's assembled a modest all-Danish ...