"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 March 15, 2018
Ab Baars - tenor saxophone, clarinet, shakuhachi
Meinrad Kneer - double bass
Bill Elgart - drums
total playing time: 44:38
Recorded live by Michael W. Huon – Odeon Mobile Unit, July 22, 2012
at Konfrontationen, Nickelsdorf, Austria
Mixed and mastered by Michael W. Huon, Odeon 120, Brussels, Belgium
All compositions by Baars / Kneer / Elgart ©buma
Design: Lysander le Coultre (
strangelove.nl)
Photography: Monique Besten
Evil Rabbit Records, ERR22 -
www.evilrabbitrecords.eu