Features Schlippenbach Trio

• 1 Feature 1 02:10
• 2 Feature 2 03:26
• 3 Feature 3 04:00
• 4 Feature 4 05:38
• 5 Feature 5 03:15
• 6 Feature 6 04:31
• 7 Feature 7 05:14
• 8 Feature 8 03:29
• 9 Feature 9 02:23
• 10 Feature 10 08:19
• 11 Feature 11 04:16
• 12 Feature 12 02:43
• 13 Feature 13 05:21
• 14 Feature 14 03:59
• 15 Feature 15 02:57
• Total Runtime 01:01:41

Info for Features

Features – characteristics, qualities, peculiarities. The title of this album was chosen with care. These recordings reveal both the fundamental nature and the diversity of this trio. Let's call it a 'preliminary résumé' then, or an 'interim report'. At any rate the range of musical expression the trio have achieved so far is demonstrated here – with poise, verve, maturity and wisdom.

What it features: a fully evolved language of sonic and rhythmic forms continually refined over the years in shared process of improvisation; its finest details are illuminated here.

The performers: three musicians who have worked together as a trio for around forty-five (!) years, constantly striving via the process of spontaneous playing to develop something which will be perceived as essential and important, possessing a 'valid' quality despite its transient existence.

The spectrum of the recordings ranges from furore to elegy. It extends from energetic, forward-thrusting pieces via cool, calm, ambling passages and ballad moods to submersion in sound, in silence.

The trio's magic chemistry is founded on years of working together, both on intuitive listening and interaction – the ability to respond in an instant – andon the match between their characters, each adding to the whole as well as challenging each other – a stroke of fortune. Alexander von Schlippenbach likes to talk about the 'impetus of music making'. Impetus means drive, initiative, force, momentum, temperament. Three 'travelling fellows' on a Winterreise. The motto is: never stay still, keep refining the music, working on the details, the current, the inner strength, so that the result is the greatest joy and clarity possible. (excerpt from the linernotes by Bert Noglik)

Alexander von Schlippenbach, piano
Evan Parker, saxophone
Paul Lovens, drums

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

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Schlippenbach Trio
35 years after the first album of the Schlippenbach trio and after numerous releases of live recordings, Schlippenbach-Parker-Lovens now present a studio recording of particular quality and atmosphere. GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT shows that after years of co-operation and intensive common musical experience the Schlippenbach trio has reached its climax. The American jazz critic Ben Young states in the liner notes: “The real story is in the nuances of line construction, how Schlippenbach, Parker, and Lovens weave the figures that they play. This really is the most advanced discipline of musical improvisation: Simultaneously chiselling one’s own line according to a personal sense of direction, while encompassing within that line the activities of the other players, and knitting it into the collective fabric.” Ben Young calls these three masters of improvisation “three wise men”.

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