He told me: “The only thing we had in common, I think, was, when we started, we couldn’t play saxophone. I think he developed his way of playing very beautifully, and I found my way of doing my shit. “I think that is actually the case,” Brötzmann told me. “We were a kind of house band there – me and Peter Kowald and different drummers – we played very often,” Brötzmann told me. Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution And The Politics Of Improvisation is published by Repeater Books.