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Ardent Grass

Label: Red Toucan Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Narrative; Diagnose; Ardent Grass; Asteroids; Rasa; Devotion; Downstairs; Sound Check.

Album

Trace

Label: Red Toucan Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. ada; 02. joseph et joseph; 03. la passe; 04. cumulus (À Madame Louise); 05. des prunes; 06. tube; 07. tractile; 08. gros dilemma; 09. improbable v.; 10. de mon ef...

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Relevance

Label: Red Toucan Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Relevance part 1; Relevance part 2; Relevance part 3; Relevance part 4.

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Article: Album Review

Frank Gratkowski / Jacob Anderskov: Ardent Grass

Read "Ardent Grass" reviewed 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 ...

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News: Recording

New Release Red Toucan: "Ardent Grass" by Jacob Anderskov and Frank Gratkowski

New Release Red Toucan: "Ardent Grass" by Jacob Anderskov and Frank Gratkowski

Here's the brand new release from Red Toucan Records: Ardent Grass (RT 9340) Jacob Anderskov: piano Frank Gratkowski: alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet Every Red Toucan aficionado knows Frank Gratkowski, a regular on the label; here, he pairs with brilliant Danish pianist Jacob Anderskov. “Over the last decade or so, pianist Jacob ...

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Article: Album Review

Dave Liebman / Evan Parker/ Tony Bianco: Relevance

Read "Relevance" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Saxophonists Dave Liebman and Evan Parker have established careers as improvisers of the first order. Both are visionaries unafraid of taking risks, and fathoming unusual territory. Their impulses may be driven by fragments or lengthy declamations, but in the end they wrap it up with cohesive logic. The high level of skill is evident on this ...

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Alexey Lapin / Melvyn Poore / Matthias Schubert / Roger Turner / Helen Bledsoe: Seek It Not With Your Eyes

Read "Seek It Not With Your Eyes" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Pianist Alexey Lapin, tenor saxophonist Matthias Schubert and tubaist Melvyn Poore planned a trio date at Cologne, Germany's The Loft, on June 28, 2009. With percussionist Roger Turner in town, the trio became a quartet, and then flautist Helen Bledsoe sat in for a second set of two tunes. The original concept may have changed, but ...

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Article: Album Review

Alexey Lapin / Melvyn Poore / Matthias Schubert / Roger Turner: Seek It Not With Your Eyes

Read "Seek It Not With Your Eyes" reviewed by Nic Jones


If free improvisation is ever in danger of becoming as stylized and hidebound by convention as the post-bop continuum, then it won't be the responsibility of the musicians featured on this release. Despite the almost half-century of free improvisation on record, examples such as Seek It Not With Your Eyes serve to emphasize how the methodology ...

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Dave Liebman / Evan Parker / Tony Bianco: Relevance

Read "Relevance" reviewed by Nic Jones


This release documents the first time that saxophonists Dave Liebman and Evan Parker have worked together and given their respective lengths of service to the music, this is remarkable. What is less so, is the fact that they so readily found a common language given their respective takes on the aesthetic of John Coltrane. Of the ...

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Dave Liebman / Evan Parker / Tony Bianco: Relevance

Read "Relevance" reviewed by Mark Corroto


It is hard to imagine that these two saxophone titans, Dave Liebman and Evan Parker, had never met on stage before this 2008 concert at The Vortex in London. Both are innovators with a distinct, almost larger than life sound and they combine forces to make this meeting very special. Back in the 1970s, ...


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