Schlippenbach Trio

Winterreise

Label: psi Country: UK

Slightly out of step with their European peers since inception, the Schlippenbach Trio's fondness for the American jazz canon is persistent and well publicized. This new travelogue of two winter tours hammers that point home once again, in both musical and visual terms. An essay authored by the pianist himself humorously recounts the banal particulars of the many kilometers commuted by car (upwards of 6000). An accompanying slideshow of photos contains several conspicuous representatives of the road trip listening library, among them Freddie Redd's The Connection and Sonny Rollins Live in London, Vol. 1, sources of inspiration that might be hard to conjecture cold but make perfect sense when revealed. The music is every bit as good as you might expect, divided into two long slabs from a pair of Cologne concert and preserved in exceptional sound."-Derek Taylor, Bagatellen.com