🎹 An Evening of Duos with Three Jazz Giants

Aki Takase and the legendary Alexander von Schlippenbach present their four-hand program from their latest recording AAPD—rarely heard, yet always fresh! In the next duo, Aki Takase appears with Rudi Mahall, with whom she shares a very special artistic kinship; in their collaboration, jazz history, masterful craftsmanship, and an unrestrained drive for musical freedom merge into a groundbreaking symbiosis.

Aki Takase (piano): SWR Jazz Prize 2002, German Record Critics Annual Prize 2004
Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano): Order of Merit recipient, SWR Jazz Prize, Albert Mangelsdorff Prize - one of the most important representatives of European free jazz
Rudi Mahall (clarinet, bass clarinet): SWR Jazz Prize 2011, "one of the most internationally sought-after jazz musicians from Germany"

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