Schlippenbach Trio - Features (2015)

Intakt Records: Intakt CD 250
http://www.intaktrec.ch/250-a.htm

* Alexander von Schlippenbach: piano
* Evan Parker: tenor saxophone
* Paul Lovens: drums

http://www.avschlippenbach.com/trio.html
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/schlippenbach-trio-mn0001392989

http://www.avschlippenbach.com/
http://www.evanparker.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lovens

Recorded December 11, 12, 2013, by Martin Pearson for Radio SRF
and Intakt Records at Radiostudio Zürich.


Reviews
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By John Fordham
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/06/schlippenbach-trio-features-review

The trio of Alex von Schlippenbach, saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Paul
Lovens are nowadays that enemy of free-improv purity: an institution (the three
have played together for 45 years). But if they can almost unerringly read each
other’s minds, their methods have never hardened into habit, and their work
over the decades has immense variety. There are 15 numbered Features here, and
they are tautly concise, and often defined by improvised openings by one or
other participant that shape their developing character. Feature 1 begins very
melodically, developing with logical rigour and ends on a haunting multiphonic
sustained tone. Some pieces weave Parker’s nimble mid-range tenor sax lines
through percussive backdrops of banging chords and Lovens’ light, scuttling
patterns; some are soft and ballad-like. Feature 6 highlights Schlippenbach as
a brusque romantic; Feature 8 sounds like jazzy call-and-response; Feature 11
is a tone poem for Parker’s remarkable textural palette. It’s unpremeditated
music executed by master craftsmen.

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Intakt Records Reviews
http://www.intaktrec.ch/rev250-a.htm

By Martin Schray
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2015/04/schlippenbach-trio-features-intakt-2015.html

By Derek Taylor

By Ivan Hewett
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/11344795/Best-jazz-albums-of-2015.html

By Jan Granlie (no)
http://salt-peanuts.eu/record/schlippenbach-trio/

By Ben Taffijn (nl)

Da Maurizio Zerbo (it)
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/features-schlippenbach-trio-intakt-records-review-by-maurizio-zerbo.php

Da Aldo Del Noce (it)
http://www.jazzconvention.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2748:schlippenbach-trio-features&catid=2:recensioni&Itemid=11

Par Luc Bouquet (fr)

Por Carlos Navarro Acosta (es)
http://www.rockaxis.com/vanguardia/discos/schlippenbach-trio/features