Schlippenbach

The pianist, two days in the studio, alone at the piano. A retreat in Zurich. Focus is on the now, the recording is running. Preparation time for the new compositions: about a year. Getting attuned to the music: a lifetime. Alexander von Schlippenbach, Slow Pieces For Aki, the emphasis being on the word “slow,” not on rediscovering slowness but discovering slowness anew - dedicated to his wife Aki Takase. with slow pieces, short pieces, compositions in which every single note demands the highest degree of attention, virtuosity shifts from the purely technical to the actual notes themselves, avoiding all irrel - evancies. Sounds that are able to glow in the dark and form themselves into star signs. it is not only Jazz and new Music that appear from far away, but also classical and romantic music, always reflected by the personality, the life and playing experience of Alexander von Schlippenbach. From my subjective point of view, dare i suggest, there is a certain serious lyricism. Slow, full of passion and filled with dedication to the music.

Alexander von Schlippenbach - Schlippenbach Plays Monk (1997) {ENJA}
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© 1997 ENJA Records | CD 9104-2
Jazz / Post Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz / Piano

Recorded during a German tour in 1996, Schlippenbach Plays Monk teams the esteemed pianist with Ino Nobuyoshi on bass and Sunny Murray on drums. Schlippenbach has played with both sidemen previously (Nobuyoshi can be heard with the Schlippenbach/Takase-led Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and Murray on the excellent FMP album Smoke) but this tour was the first that brought them all together and the pairing brings an interesting dynamic to the often revisited Thelonious Monk songbook.

Alexander von Schlippenbach - Friulian Sketches (2008) {Psi Records psi 08.07}
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© 2008 Psi Records / Emanem | psi 08.07
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Creative / Piano

Sketches from the interface of jazz and modern chamber music. Powerful, dynamic and richly rewarding. You can probably look at the instrumentation and personnel on this disc and know approximately what to expect. Alexander von Schlippenbach will be well known to many listeners as the leader of the Schlippenbach Trio that also features Paul Lovens and Evan Parker. He’s also the founder of the Globe Unity Orchestra, and has famously recorded interpretations of all of Thelonious Monk’s original compositions.

Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio - Gold Is Where You Find It (2008) (ft. Evan Parker) {Intakt}
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© 2008 Intakt Records | Intakt CD 143
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Jazz

35 years after the first album of the Schlippenbach trio and after numerous releases of live recordings, Schlippenbach-Parker-Lovens now present a studio recording of particular quality and atmosphere. GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT shows that after years of co-operation and intensive common musical experience the Schlippenbach trio has reached its climax.

Alexander von Schlippenbach - The Living Music (1969) {Atavistic UMS/ALP231CD rel 2002}
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© 1969, 2002 Quasar/ Atavistic | UMS/ALP231CD
Jazz / Free Improvisation / Piano

Alexander von Schlippenbach, along with Peter Brötzmann and Manfred Schoof, was one of the founders of the German free jazz collective FMP Records. Like all good collectives, FMP knew how to conserve resources: the entirety of The Living Music, as well as half of Brötzmann's legendary 1969 album Nipples, was recorded by the same musicians in one day. Unlike Brötzmann's corrosive, chaotic Nipples, the six pieces on The Living Music explore the concepts of open spaces and collective improvisation at least as much as they do everyone-solos-at-once clatter.

Schlippenbach Trio - Swinging The Bim (2000) [2CD] {FMP} (ft. Evan Parker)
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© 2000 FMP-Publishing | CD114/15
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Creative / Free Jazz

This is everything it ought to be. This high-test modern jazz trio taped a 1998 gig at Amsterdam's Bimhuis, and the members were happy enough with the results to release a double CD containing both sets in their entirety. Only a good jazz group could get away with something like this; so fear not, the Schlippenbach Trio is not just good, it is great.

Evan Parker Trio & Peter Brotzmann Trio - The Bishop's Move (2004) {VICTO} (ft. Alexander von Schlippenbach)
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© 2004 VICTO / SRC | CD 093
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Jazz / Saxophone

A happening. Not that these two heavyweight reedsmen had never shared a stage, but this was going to be a face-off, a clash between two of the hardest-working free improv trios on the circuit. On the left side of the stage: Evan Parker, with drummer Paul Lytton and pianist Alex von Schlippenbach, the latter filling in for bassist Barry Guy. On the right side: Peter Brötzmann and his trusty rhythm section, bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake. These are two highly experienced and gifted trios, with different approaches (complementary ones, some will say).

Alexander von Schlippenbach - Payan (2014) {Enja Jazz Classics}
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© 1972, 2014 Enja Records | Enja Jazz Classics | enja 9216
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Jazz / Piano

The first solo piano recording from one of the leading, and most influential, musicians from the first generation of European free improvisers, never before released on CD! Alex von Schlippenbach studied classical composition with Bernd Alois Zimmermann at the Hochschule Köln, and worked as a jazz pianist with Gunter Hampel and Manfred Schoof. In 1966 he established the Globe Unity Orchestra, one of the most influential European jazz groups. Schlippenbach has been invited to perform all over the world, and achieved numerous awards for his work as pianist, composer, and bandleader.