"This trio has articulated a sophisticated new iteration of the impulses that birthed free jazz, one that can be likened to the controlled explosions used to level abandoned buildings. Even though audience reactions were snuffed on Live at Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf 2012, it is safe to assume that Baars, Kneer and Elgart brought down the house.“
Bill Shoemaker, june 2018, Moments Notice/
pointofdeparture.org
"This trio has become a powerful lab for free-improvisation strategies. It refuses to settle in any strict form or dynamics, but attempts to invent and reinvent itself anew again and again while keeping a playful flow, despite its fast-shifting, confrontational approach. You need the support of an open audience as the one of the Konfrontationen festival to choose this kind of challenging approach."
Eyal Hareuveni, 5 Dezember 2018,
freejazzblog.org
"(…) a trio from the top division of improvised music."
Dolf Mulder, july 2018, vital weekly, number 1139, week 27
released August 1, 2013
Ab Baars – tenor saxophone, clarinet, shakuhachi
Meinrad Kneer – double bass
Bill Elgart – drums
total playing time: 63:22
Recorded by Sebastian Demydczuk, October 9, 2011
at Soundbalancestudio, Foxhol, the Netherlands
Mixed by Sebastian Demydczuk
Mastered by Rob Elfrink
All compositions by Baars / Kneer / Egart ©BUMA/STEMRA
Design: Lysander le Coultre (
strangelove.nl)
Photography: Monique Besten