FMP CD OWN 90011

FREEDOM OF
SPEECH
Schröder - Walsdorff - Jenneßen

Preis / Price : 15.08 €
Bestell-Nr. / P/O No. : FMP CD OWN-90011

John Schröder

guitar, piano

Henrik Walsdorff

alto sax

Uli Jenneßen

drums, percussion

A. Freedom of Speech (Schröder)

22:55

01.

Freedom

04:47

02.

Liberty

07:50

03.

Speech

10:18

B. Die Outisten (Jenneßen)

21:25

04.

Goody moody baby

07:42

05.

Allein auf höchster Ebene

03:30

06.

Hölder

07:52

07.

After...

02:21

C. Round Kisses (Waldorff)

22:07

08.

Jazz killed itself

01:22

09.

Free man

13:01

10.

Anastasia

02:08

11.

Max und Moritz

04:28

12.

Haiku

01:08

Total time:

66:27

Recorded by Hrolfur Vagnsson on July 13, 1998 at Vagnsson Studio, Hannover.
Produced by Schröder, Waldorff, Jenneßen
Layout: Jost Gebers
Photos: Gerold Genßler
Liner notes: Felix Klopotek

First published in June 1999

Excerpt from the booklet:
FREEDOM OF SPEECH - the name alludes to the fundamental principles of Free Jazz. (...) ´Free´ was supposed to be related to a form of communication, aware of ist own set up. FREEDOM OF SPEECH, from this perspective, has very little to do with the petit bourgeois attitude to be finally allowed to say what has been on one´s mind for a long time. It was and is about revealing the rules of making music as constructs. Once this loosening of canonised musical policies had taken place, there was the possibility of arriving at other terms for melody and rhythm. (...) The fact, that equality is a dynamic state, (…) requires a productive way of dealing with the differences between the instruments and the musicians playing them. Only when it is clear that, for example, saxophone, guitar and drums are three completely different instruments which sound their best when played in such a way not described in any school, the togetherness van be created in a reasonable way, following the rules of freedom of speech. (…)

FREEDOM OF SPEECH are neither epigones nor saviours. They demonstrate how (younger) musicians, authoritatively aware of tradition and techniques and then, again, sublimating themselves, create free improvisation, completely focussed on playing for the moment, by simply playing it. Understanding it as a matter of course, something so out of the ordinary. (…)

Felix Klopotek