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Evan Parker/ Matthew Shipp: Rex, Wrecks & XXX
by John Sharpe
Few barriers remain in jazz. Certainly not geographical or generational. Even genre does not present insurmountable obstacles. Were it needed, further confirmation arrives in the shape of a meeting between two distinctive stylists: American pianist Matthew Shipp and English saxophone iconoclast Evan Parker. Far from being their first encounter, the pair know each other well, having ...
Frank Gratkowski / Jacob Anderskov: Ardent Grass
by Jerry D'Souza
Over the years, reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalist Frank Gratkowski has formed a series of potent combinations with other musicians. His first was with Georg Graewe in 1992 before he went on to fruitful collaborations with Gerry Hemingway, Wilbert DeJoode, Michael Vatcher and Herb Robertson, among others. Gratkowski has the ingrained ability to turn the presence of his musical ...
Sonic Fiction
By Georg Graewe
Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Alien corn I; Alien corn II; Alien corn III; Fibulation; Aspects of somnambulism/Demure scuttle; Aspects of somnambulism/sleepwalker; Fangled talk; Masting.
Georg Graewe/Ernst Reijseger/Gerry Hemingway: Sonic Fiction
by Marc Medwin
This long-standing and prolific international trio's debut finally gets the reissue treatment. Still quite active and stylistically amorphous, the group's first statement remains a bold one, establishing a collective aesthetic that defied boundary and categorization while making its place in history clear. The second part of Alien Corn" is as fine a point of departure as ...
Pianist Georg Graewe Interviewed at AAJ
Could Georg Graewe be a chameleonic figure in the world of jazz improvisation? Listening to a selection of recordings from over the last decade or two, it soon becomes clear that this German pianist is frequently found in completely different settings, with his music consequently traversing the distance from intensely thoughtful sparseness through to throttling, high-density ...
Georg Graewe: Jazz Improv Chameleon
by Martin Longley
Could Georg Graewe be a chameleonic figure in the world of jazz improvisation? Listening to a selection of recordings from over the last decade or two, it soon becomes clear that this German pianist is frequently found in completely different settings, with his music consequently traversing the distance from intensely thoughtful sparseness through to throttling, high-density ...
Georg Graewe - Barre Phillips - Peter Van Bergen: Other Songs
by Glenn Astarita
Modern jazz/improvising pianist Georg Graewe is rapidly becoming a prominent recording artist for Dallas, Texas based “nuscope recordings” and on Other Songs the pianist performs alongside world class bassist, Barre Phillips and the lesser known but highly regarded saxophonist/clarinetist, Peter Van Bergen. The title, Other Songs intimates choice tidbits of loosely based motifs, quaint three-way dialogue ...
Georg Graewe - Marcio Mattos - Michael Vatcher: Impressions Of Monk
by Glenn Astarita
Not often will you hear Thelonius Monk's music performed in the manner that is represented on Impressions Of Monk by the Trio consisting of pianist Georg Graewe, bassist Marcio Mattos and drummer Michael Vatcher. Following up their extraordinary and largely improvised freshman release for nuscope recordings titled, Subsymbolism , the group take on Monk's work in ...