The Neukollner trio of Bertrand Denzler on sax, Joel Grip on double bass, and Sven-Ake Johnasson on drums is joined by pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach for a double album of exhilarating free jazz that conjurs standards-based jazz through well-structured instant compositions.
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Bertrand Denzler-saxophone
Joel Grip-doublebass
Sven-Ake Johansson-drums
Alexander von Schlippenbach-piano
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Cover design by Teresa Iten. Liner notes (in German and English) by Bastian Zimmermann. Produced with the support from The Swedish Art Council.
Label: Umlaut Records
Catalog ID: UMCD2627
Squidco Product Code: 23551
Format: 2 CDs
Condition: New
Released: 2017
Country: Sweden / France / Germany
Packaging: Digipack - 3 panel w/ booklet
Recorded at Sowieso in Berlin, Germany, on November 1st, 2015 by Andrew Levine.
"In this double CD, following up the recent release Sektion 1-2 (umlp03), Neuköllner Modelle is joined by pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach. Their music evokes questions on swing: how it is heard today and fed back to us historically. In the detailed booklet Bastian Zimmermann point out that "Neuköllner Modelle is perhaps the first serious attempt to swing once again without playing standards.
The musicians develop jazz as a form of instant composition, with the energy of not only the blues but also bebop, and in the classical hierarchy of a rhythm section consisting of double bass and drums. However, all four musicians come from the areas of Free Jazz, of improvised music, or even, in Johansson's case, of performance and conceptual music."
The excitement, and here lays perhaps the keys of swing, is connected to the way Neuköllner Modelle voices out the positioning of strong independent and co-existing ideas. Their music is striving towards a common somewhere asserting their differing assumptions and expectations."-Umlaut
Cover design by Teresa Iten. Liner notes (in German and English) by Bastian Zimmermann. Produced with the support from The Swedish Art Council.
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Bertrand Denzler ^ Hide Bio for Bertrand Denzler • Show Bio for Joel Grip "For a number of years now, energetic double bassist, filmmaker and producer Grip has played an important role for the new scenes of improvised music in Europe. As founder of Umlaut Records, he opened up for creative forms of organizing collectives of musicians and promoting their music internationally. Since 2003 he has been one of the main organizers of Hagenfesten in Dala-Floda, Sweden, a stand-alone festival, and quite frankly possibly the most pleasant venue for free improvised music not only in Sweden but in the whole of Europe. Few other places offer quite the same endearing combination of sophisticated musical risk-taking, and up-beat, social get-together. GripÕs musicianship is informed by a similar knack for welding musical sophistication with social communication, often with an analog film camera at hand. With a handful of short films Joel Grip met mexican filmmaker Mauricio Hern‡ndez and shortly the film production company Umlicht was established. They are right now working on their third and forth feature film together. Umdicht is amplifying the pencil of Joel GripÕs hand, partly through the irregular issue of Lšsa Blad and partly in the future release of books." ^ Hide Bio for Joel Grip • Show Bio for Sven-Ake Johansson "Sven-Åke Johansson (born 1943 in Mariestad, living in Berlin since 1968) is a Swedish drummer and composer associated with free jazz and free improvisation. He was in the Globe Unity Orchestra and played with German reedist Alfred Harth and Belgian pianist Nicole Van den Plas in E.M.T.." ^ Hide Bio for Sven-Ake Johansson • Show Bio for Alexander von Schlippenbach "One of Europe's premier free jazz bandleaders, pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach's music mixes free and contemporary classical elements, with his slashing solos often the link between the two in his compositions. Schlippenbach formed The Globe Unity Orchestra in 1966 to perform the piece"Globe Unity, which had been commissioned by the Berliner Jazztage. He remained involved with the orchestra into the '80s. Schlippenbach began taking lessons at eight, and studied at the Staatliche Hochschule for Musik in Cologne with composers Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Rudolf Petzold. He played with Gunther Hampel in 1963, and was in Manfred Schoof's quintet from 1964 to 1967.Schlippenbach began heading various bands after 1967, among them 1970 trio with Evan Parker and Paul Lovens and a duo with Sven-Ake Johansson which they co-formed in 1976. Schlippenbach has also given many solos performances. In the late '80s, he formed the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra,which has featured a number ofesteemed European avant-garde jazz musicians including Evan Parker, Paul Lovens, KennyWheeler, Misha Mengelberg and Aki Takase. During the 90`s Duo work with Tony Oxley, Sam Rivers and Aki Takase. 1999 started performance and radiorecording of Thelonius Monks complete works, (all the compositions) with Rudi Mahall and his group "Die Enttäuschung"." ^ Hide Bio for Alexander von Schlippenbach
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Track Listing:
CD1
1. Sektion 3 19:12
2. Sektion 4 18:36
3. Sektion 5 4:40
CD2
1. Sektion 6 17:17
2. Sektion 7 34:00
Improvised Music
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European Improvisation and Experimental Forms
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