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Han Bennink: Monk Volume One

Read "Monk Volume One" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Pity the straight man that has to play alongside the comedic drummer Han Bennink. In his 50+ years of music making, no gesture, tap, thump, or strike has gone unnoticed. And while he has covered the music of Thelonious Monk before, never has Monk, as interpreted by Bennink, sounded better.On paper this recording, a ...

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Alexander Von Schlippenbach: Friulian Sketches

Read "Friulian Sketches" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Sono anime ricche di asperità e di imprevedibile dolcezza quelle di Alexander von Schlippenbach, Daniele D'Agaro e Tristan Honsinger, che sorprendiamo qui a triangolare in una serie di brevi Friulian Sketches che ne mettono in luce tutta la loro straordinaria sapienza di compositori istantanei. È petrosa e apparentemente diffidente - il riferimento friulano, che ovviamente è ...

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Aki Takase / Alexander Von Schlippenbach: Iron Wedding

Read "Iron Wedding" reviewed by Nic Jones


If there was ever anything predictable about these two pianists coming together on record, the results are anything but. Alexander von Schlippenbach is the senior figure by some decades, but this is still such a meeting of minds that the difference of time pales into insignificance. This is their first meeting on record in fifteen years. ...

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Alexander von Schlippenbach's 70th Birthday Year

Read "Alexander von Schlippenbach's 70th Birthday Year" reviewed by John Eyles


In the year which saw him turn seventy (on April 7th 2008), pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach released these three very different recordings which amply demonstrate that he is still at the peak of his powers whatever the context. The year also saw Schlippenbach tour the UK with drummer and percussionist Eddie Prevost, and a record of ...

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Alexander von Schlippenbach: Piano Solo '77

Read "Piano Solo '77" reviewed by Henry Smith


Pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach has been a mainstay of the European free jazz scene for nearly as long as it has existed, playing with Gunther Hampel and Manfred Schoof in the mid-'60s while forming the still active Globe Unity Orchestra in 1966. His trio with Paul Lovens and Evan Parker has been active since the early ...

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Piano Solo '77

Label: FMP Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Brooks; The Onliest - The Loneliest 1; Lhotse; The Onliest - The Loneliest 2.

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Blackheath

Label: Limetree Records
Released: 2008

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Gold Is Where You Find It

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Z.D.W.A.; Slightly Flapping; Amorpha; Gold IS Where You Find It; K. SP; Monkey's Fist; Lekko; Cloudburst; Three In One; The Bells Of St. K.

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Friulian Sketches

Label: Limetree Records
Released: 2008


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