Schlippenbach Plays Monk
Released: Sep 7, 2004
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Released: Sep 7, 2004
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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...
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Digger's Harvest
Released: Nov 5, 1998
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Released: Nov 5, 1998
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One of the few of the intense avant-garde jazz pianists to develop a style largely free of Cecil Taylor's influence, von Schlippenbach has mellowed only slightly with age. These seven duos with...
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Monk's Casino
Released: 2005
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Released: 2005
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The jazz world owes a deep debt of gratitude to pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, who undertook in 2003 and 2004 a project that was long overdue: a recording of everything written by the...
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Live 1976/1977
Released: 2000
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Released: 2000
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Back when this duo was playing literally hundreds of concerts together, the free music scene was hungering for this kind of intensity, the flash-pot brilliance that could be conjured when two...
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Open Speech
Released: 2004
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Released: 2004
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One of two albums recorded by Jean-Marc Foussat while Portuguese flutist Carlos Bechegas toured France in July 2003 (the other one is Open Frontiers, with Michel Edelin), Open Speech is a honest...
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Broomriding
Released: September 2003
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Released: September 2003
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Pianist Alex von Schlippenbach is justifiably famous as the driving force behind the Globe Unity Orchestra, Europe's first (and arguably best) free improvising large ensemble, and as one third of a...
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Swinging the BIM
Released: 2000
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Released: 2000
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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...
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Complete Combustion
Released: 1999
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Released: 1999
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The trio of Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano), Evan Parker (soprano and tenor saxophones), and Paul Lovens (cymbals and drums) has been in existence in one form or another since the early '70s....
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