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.
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.