Alexander von Schlippenbach (born 7 April 1938) is a German jazz pianist and composer. He came to prominence in the 1960s playing free jazz in a trio with saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Paul Lovens, and as a member of the Globe Unity Orchestra. Since the 1980s, Von Schlippenbach has explored the work of more traditional jazz composers such as Jelly Roll Morton or Thelonious Monk. Biography Schlippenbach started to play piano from the age of eight and went on to study composition at Cologne under Bernd Alois Zimmermann. While studying he started to play with Manfred Schoof. At the age of 28 he founded the Globe Unity Orchestra. In 1988, he founded the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, a big band that has over the years comprised, among others, Willem Breuker, Paul Lovens, Misha Mengelberg, Evan Parker, Schlippenbach's wife Aki Takase and Kenny Wheeler. In 1994, he was awarded the Albert Mangelsdorff prize. Schlippenbach has produced various recordings and worked for German radio channels. He played with many players of the European free jazz community. In 2005, he recorded the complete works of Thelonious Monk, which were released on CD as Monk's Casino. Gallery Discography As leader Globe Unity (SABA, 1967) The Living Music (QUASAR, 1969) Payan (Enja, 1972) Pakistani Pomade (FMP, 1973) Three Nails Left (FMP, 1975) The Hidden Peak (FMP, 1977) Piano Solo (FMP, 1977) Rondo Brillante with Martin Theurer (FMP, 1983) Anticlockwise (FMP, 1983) Stranger Than Love with Paul Lovens, (Po Torch, 1985) Smoke with Sunny Murray, (FMP, 1990) Elf Bagatellen (FMP, 1990) Physics (FMP, 1993) Light Blue Schlippenbach Plays Monk (Enja, 1997) Tangens with Sam Rivers (FMP, 1998) Digger's Harvest with Tony Oxley (FMP, 1999) Complete Combustion (FMP, 1999) Hunting the Snake (Atavistic, 2000) Swinging the Bim (FMP, 2000) Compression (2002) Broomriding (Psi, 2003) Open Speech with Carlos Bechegas (Forward, 2004) Vesuvius with Paul Dunmall (Slam, 2005) Monk's Casino (Intakt, 2005) Winterreise (Psi, 2006) Twelve Tone Tales Vol. I (Intakt, 2006) Twelve Tone Tales Vol. II (Intakt, 2006) Dedalus with Daniele D'Agaro (Artesuono, 2007) Friulian Sketches (psi, 2008) Blackheath with Eddie Prevost (Matchless, 2008) Gold Is Where You Find It (Intakt, 2008) Bauhaus Dessau (Intakt, 2010) Berlin with G9 Gipfel (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010) Blue Hawk with Manfred Schoof (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011) Schlippenbach Plays Monk (Intakt, 2012) First Recordings (Trost, 2014) Features (Intakt, 2015) Warsaw Concert (Intakt, 2016) Jazz Now! (Intuition, 2016) So Far with Rudi Mahall (Relative Pitch,