Name: Schnell: Day 1
Start: 2025-12-17T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Sowieso

Schnell
Pierre Borel (alto sax)
Antonio Borghini (double bass)
Christian Lillinger (drums)
Wed Dec 17 | Doors 20:00 | Concert 20:30
Sowieso, Weisestraße 24, 12049 Berlin
The bebop tradition as a starting point to investigate speed, stasis, trance, intuition and limits.
The music of some great masters of the jazz and bebop tradition—such as Parker, Monk, McLean, Powell and Ellington—is for the trio a “memory basket”, an archetype with which to confront their own language. Speed is the key element of the process, but it doesn’t function in a mechanical way; rather, it transforms the language by pushing the players to their limits, forcing them to develop new strategies, both individually and collectively.
Bebop became repertoire music long ago, and the rational and aesthetic side of it took slowly over, leaving the improvisational process behind. For Schnell, improvisation is still the core of that music, and plays it on the verge, at high speed, where body memory, intuition, and the unconscious are essentials.