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Frank Gratkowski
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Frank Gratkowski was born in Hamburg in 1963 and studied at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. He has extended his instrumental skills to include almost the entire spectrum of woodwind instruments, including flutes. He works intensively on tonal extensions and modifications of his instruments in solo projects and small formations using unorthodox playing techniques and microtonal concepts, some of which he has developed himself. As a bandleader and composer, he traverses the broad context of contemporary improvised music. There is no clear distinction between composition and improvisation in his work.
SoundScapes #4 Berlin 2023 silent green
Label: FSR
Released: 2025
Track listing: Cheers for Good Times!; Noniin; Chamberliners; One Day We'll Meet Again; One Flew Over; Flight Modes; Nomikäettei; Born in Italy; Shall We Dance?; Q.M. #4; Mother's Delight; It's An Ö-B-A-G-F; Treasures Beyond; If I Had a Wish; Tuuli; Irresistible Three; Twoowt; Canzone di Tristano.
Nicola Miller: Living Things
by Mike Jurkovic
It is more than fair enough to say that Nova Scotia-based saxophonist/composer Nicola Miller's vision and understanding of things is peppered with oddly curious axioms and an astute ear for the undertow that pulls us all further out to sea or crashing into the breakers. At least that is what Living Things, Miller's first bold ...
Living Things
Label: Cacophonous Revival Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Barge; Night Crawlers; Poplar; Buffleheads; Living Things; Seaweed; Seagulls; Flies.
Xhosa Cole, Nicola Miller & Art Jackson’s Atrocity
by Maurice Hogue
There's a seemingly endless pool of great saxophonists that have emerged from Birmingham, England's scene---Andy Hamilton, Soweto Kinch & Shabaka Hutchings to name a few--with the latest, Xhosa Cole whose career is taking off. Named the 2018 BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year Award, Cole has gained much attention, and his third release On A ...
Simon Nabatov 3 + 2: Verbs
by John Sharpe
What constitutes a composition? German-based Russian-born pianist Simon Nabatov makes a convincing case that a simple verbal instruction can suffice on Verbs. It is not a claim he makes himself, but the six supposed improvisations each mines such a distinctive seam that, although spontaneously conceived without melody or other formal arrangement, the initial proposition proves enough. ...
Tender Mercies
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Turn of events; Tender mercies; Safe home; Cagey; Layers of disguise; Surfaces; Disgruntled settlement.
John Sharpe's Best Jazz Albums Of 2023
by John Sharpe
From the 200 or so discs that I heard in 2023, here are ten new issues and one archival release, which gave me the most pleasure. As always these picks are entirely subjective. And take no account of the many other albums that I would no doubt have loved if I had heard them. So perhaps ...
Frank Gratkowski, Simon Nabatov: Tender Mercies
by John Sharpe
This collection of seven duets from pianist Simon Nabatov and reedman Frank Gratkowski stands as one of those times when the late Misha Mengelberg's term “instant composition" for a series of seat-of-the-pants encounters makes absolute sense. Perhaps that should not be a surprise, considering the protagonists histories and shared base in the German city of Cologne. ...
