Schlippenbach Trio: Bauhaus Dessau | Jazz review

(Intakt)German pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach's free-improvising trio, with percussion Paul Lovens and British saxophonist Evan Parker, has been around on and off for a remarkable 40 years. This set was recorded at the Bauhaus – a point made much of in the liner notes, showing how Bauhaus theories on space, enclosure, beginnings and endings chime with free-improv's narrative-disrupting methods. But it's inevitable that such a long-running partnership should develop its own personal narrat...

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