Incendiary large-ensemble music in the manner of Globe Unity.
Mani Neumeier contributes wild percussion to It’s Up; Peter Brötzmann squares off against a trio of trios — three basses, three pianos, three drummers —in Three. The most compositionally complex works are Schlippenbach’s: the title track and Turn 14.
Other participants include drummers Jaki Liebezeit and Sven-Äke Johansson, bassists Peter Kowald, Uli Trepte, and Buschi Niebergall, pianist Fred Van Hove, and saxophonist Gerd Dudek.