Alexander von Schlippenbach (born 7 April 1938)[1] is a German jazz pianist and composer.

He came to prominence in the 1960s playing free jazz in a trio with saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Paul Lovens, and as a member of the Globe Unity Orchestra.

Since the 1980s, Von Schlippenbach has explored the work of more traditional jazz composers such as Jelly Roll Morton or Thelonious Monk.

Schlippenbach started to play piano from the age of eight and went on to study composition at Cologne under Bernd Alois Zimmermann.

[1] In 1988, he founded the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra,[1] a big band that has over the years comprised, among others, Willem Breuker, Paul Lovens, Misha Mengelberg, Evan Parker, Schlippenbach's wife[2] Aki Takase and Kenny Wheeler.