Angelika Niescier, Chris Tordini & Tyshawn Sorey - The Berlin Concert (2018)

This magnificent concert took place at the Berlin Jazzfest 2017, where Angelika Niescier was awarded the Albert Mangelsdorff Prize (German Jazz Prize). This concert by the Angelika Niescier NYC Trio with Chris Tordini on bass and Tyshawn Sorey on drums – who was Jazzfest Berlin’s 2017 Artist in Residence, and gave several performances in Berlin – proved to be a remarkable stroke of luck for the festival, since Niescier had already worked regularly with both for ten years.

Christian Broecking writes in the liner notes: "This Berlin Concert of the Angelika Niescier Trio makes it clear in a unique way how something organically complete can emerge from all this unceasing curiosity, questioning and research, from pulse, attentiveness and from an acute sense of judgment and knowledge of what is going to work. When Tordini heard the recording of this very special concert, he noticed both the collective attention and the freedom, a combination which only rarely succeeds in such intense conditions. And Tyshawn Sorey agrees: ‘None of us either hung around for the others or hurried ahead of them.’“

Angelika Niescier, saxophone
Christopher Tordini, double bass
Tyshawn Sorey, drums

Recorded live at Berliner Festspiele/ Jazzfest Berlin, November 3, 2017, by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, rbb
Mixed and mastered by rbb
Radio producer: Ulf Drechsel
Sound supervisor: Wolfgang Hoff
Recording engineer: Tjark Völker
Digital cut and mastering by Benjamin Ihnow