Alexander von Schlippenbach
Alexander von Schlippenbach ( born April 7, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German jazz pianist, a freelance arranger and composer in Berlin. Schlippenbach is an important representative of the first generation of European free jazz musicians.
Life and work
Schlippenbach took piano lessons from the age of eight; After graduating from a high school cross street in Cologne, he studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne with Rudolf Petzold and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Already during his studies he was a pianist in jazz quintet by Gunter Hampel and from 1965 in the ensemble of Manfred Schoof. At 28, he founded (initially for a commission from the Berlin Jazz Days ), the Globe Unity Orchestra, which he heads today. In 1968 he organized one of the " anti - festival" in Cologne, shortly after he was involved in the founding of the first held by the Musicians Labels Free Music Production (FMP ).
Since 1970 there has his trio with Paul Lovens and at first Michel Pilz, then Evan Parker ( partly as a quartet with Peter Kowald, Alan Silva or Reggie Workman ). He toured for the Goethe -Institut in Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States and made theater work with Sven -Åke Johansson. He produced for WDR, SDR, SWF, Radiotelevisione Italiana, or the RIAS Berlin Germany Radio. Many LPs and CDs published by MPS, CBS, ECM, Enja, FMP, Disk Union and integrity.
In 1988 he founded the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra Schlippenbach with the aim to perform new works of contemporary jazz composers and produce phonograms. Furthermore Schlippenbach worked in duo with Sven -Åke Johansson, with his wife, Aki Takase, with Tony Oxley, with Sam Rivers and Sunny Murray. In 1999 he recorded the complete works of Thelonious Monk at the NDR in cooperation with Rudi Mahall and Axel Dörner. In 2001, he served as a program consultant to the Total Music Meeting. In 2011 he founded, together with Henrik Walsdorff the Schlippenbach Walsdorff quartet ( with Antonio Borghini and Christian Lillinger ). Occasionally, he performs together with his son Vincent aka DJ Illvibe on.
Prizes and awards
Schlippenbach received record prices of the Union of German jazz musician ( UDJ ) (1980 /81) and is the recipient of the Berlin Art Prize in 1976 and the Albert Mangelsdorff Prize 1994. 2007 he received the SWR - Jazz Prize.