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Wake

By Frank Gratkowski

Label: Red Toucan Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Slide; Ambitus; Scrabble; Parallax; Archipelago.

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Article: Live Review

Umbrella Music FestivalChicago, ILNovember 5-8, 2009 If jazz is to survive in a modern world without the support of major labels or corporate funding, it will be through the efforts of organizations like Umbrella Music, “a group of Chicago-based musicians and presenters working together to provide concert opportunities for creative and improvising musicians." ...

News: Interview

Free Jazz Reedman Frank Gratkowski Interviewed at AAJ

November 12, 2009

Virtuoso German reed specialist Frank Gratkowski enjoys a particularly fertile range of collaborations, settings and directional thrusts. He was back in New York in October, 2009 with a trio that has released three albums during the last six years: Kwast (Konnex, 2004), Unearth (Nuscope, 2005) and Palaë (Leo, 2006). Appearing at Roulette, Gratkowski was joined by ...

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Article: Interview

Frank Gratkowski: Accept Everything

by Martin Longley
November 12, 2009

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News: Book / Magazine

AllAboutJazz-New York November 2009 Issue Now Available!

November 1, 2009

When we at AllAboutJazz-New York start work on our November issue, we realize just how close to the end of the year we are. By the time you are reading this issue, the World Series will be nearly decided (Go Yankees?). Then at the end of the month is Thanksgiving and then the holiday season begins ...

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Article: Profile

Herb Robertson: Abandon in the Moment

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
March 25, 2009

Amid a whorl of scraped cello, tenor sax squawks, and bass clarinet blats, trumpeter Herb Robertson paused, his eyes closed in concentration. With NSA-like hearing ability, he pierced the action with a bracing note that crystallized the unfurling improvisation. The intent listening and bold responses displayed during saxophonist Lotte Anker's January show at The Stone typify ...

Article: Album Review

Frank Gratkowski - Chris Brown - William Winant: wake

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 10, 2009

wake è il primo lavoro in Trio di tre giganti della scena improvvisativa degli ultimi vent'anni, Frank Gratkowski, Chris Brown e William Winant, che danno alle stampe per la Red Toucan una registrazione effettuata al Mills College di Oakland in California nel marzo del 2007. Il compositore, sassofonista e clarinettista tedesco Frank Gratkowski si conficca con ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Frank Gratkowski: Palae, Wake and Live at the Musik Triennale Koln

by John Sharpe
March 7, 2009

Achim Kaufman/ Frank Gratkowski/ Wilbert de Joode Palae Leo Records 2007 Frank Gratkowski/ Chris Brown/ William Winant Wake Red Toucan Records 2008 James Choice Orchestra live at the musik triennale koln ...

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Article: Album Review

Gratkowski / Brown / Winant: Wake

by Nic Jones
January 19, 2009

This is a remarkably simpatico trio. The evidence is all over this program in terms of deft musical touches and the deep listening of all three members. Even in the most animated passages the music never descends into mere chaos, and there is an underlying logic which just might lie closer to the heart of musical ...

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