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Gratkowski / Nabatov / Robertson / Manderscheid: Celebrations (Leo Records)


 

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Frank Gratkowski-alto sax, clarinet, bass and contrabass clarinet

Herb Nabatov-trumpet, coronet

Simon Robertson-piano, e-bows, cracklebox

Dieter Manderscheid-doublebass


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UPC: 5024792048526

Label: Leo Records
Catalog ID: LEOR485.2
Squidco Product Code: 8470

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2007
Country: UK
Packaging: Jewel Tray
Recorded live on January 11, 2006 at Loft, Cologne by Stefan Deistler.

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"These four played for the first time together on that wintry evening in Cologne, incidentally the birthday of Simon Nabatov. But the musical interconnections inside of this ensemble are manifold: Frank Gratkowski and Dieter Manderscheid's collaboration in Frank's quartet, Gratkowski's fabulous participation in Nabatov's quartet and octet, Herb Robertson's unique contribution in Frank's double quartet and Simon's quintet. With all this in place, they celebrate their first meeting in four musical discourses, often subtle, at times fiery, and always fascinating to follow."-Leo


Artist Biographies

"Frank Gratkowski, saxophone. Born in Hamburg, 1963.

Started playing the saxophone at 16 and, following a period at the Hamburg Conservatory (Hamburger Musikhochschule), moved in 1985 to study at the Cologne Conservatory of Music with Heiner Wiberny, graduating in 1990.

Further studies with Charlie Mariano, Sal Nistico and Steve Lacy.

Frank Gratkowski has been working as a soloist in various international formations (Grubenklang Orchester, Klaus Koenig Orchester, Musikfabrik NRW, Tony Oxley Celebration Orchestra, Bentje Braam, BikBentBraam, All Ears, Zeitkratzer, WDR Big band, etc.). Since 1990 he has been giving solo performances throughout Europe, Canada and USA. With his first solo program, he was a 1991 prizewinner in the Musik Kreativ contest. The release of the solo CD "Artikulationen" followed the same year and a new one "Artikulationen II" in 2002.

Since 1992 he has been working in a duo with the pianist Georg Graewe (CD "VicissEtudes"). The duo is often extended through the participation of different additional musicians, such as drummer Paul Lovens (CD "Quicksand") and bassist John Lindberg (CD "Arrears").

In 1995 he founded the "Frank Gratkowski Trio" with Dieter Manderscheid (Germany), bass, and Gerry Hemingway (USA), drums, (CDs "Gestalten" and "The Flume Factor" ). In 2000 the trio has been extended to a quartet by Dutch trombonist Wolter Wierbos (CDs "Kollaps", "Spectral Reflections", "Facio" and "Le Vent et la Gorge"). Since 2003 also appearing as a Double Quartet plus Tobias Delius, Herb Robertson, Wilbert DeJoode and Michael Vatcher. In 2005 he got the SWR Jazzprize.

In 1999 the duo with the Italian trombonist Sebastiano Tramontana has been formed and since 2001 Frank Gratkowski has been performing with a trio including Wilbert De Jode (NL) on bass and Achim Kaufmann (D) on piano (CDs "Kwast" and "Unearth"). Since 2006 he's working with the Trio Gratkowski / Brown / Winant (CDs "Wake" and "Vermilion Traces/Donaueschingen 2009"). He is also a co-leader / composer of the Multiple Joy[ce] Orchestra and got a commission to compose for the ensemble Apartment House by "November Music " (Den Bosch NL) and the "Huddersfield Comtemporary Music Fesitival" (England) in 2009. Further actual projects are Fo[u]r Alto, a saxophone ensemble dedicated to microtonal music and "Artikulationen E" a solo program for saxophone with 8 channel live electronic.

Frank Gratkowski played on nearly every German and on numerous international Jazz and contemporary music Festivals including Vancouver, Toronto, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Quebec, Les Mans, Muelhuus, Groeningen, Nickelsdorf, Barcelona, Lithuania, Warsaw, Zagreb, Prague, Bratislava, Sofia, Bucharest, Odessa and Roma, Huddersfield, London.

He has been teaching saxophone and ensembles at the Cologne, Berlin and Arnhem Conservatory of Music and is giving workshops all around the world.

Furthermore he has performed with Robert Dick, Phil Wachsmann, Radu Malfatti, Herb Robertson, Marcio Mattos, Eugenio Colombo, Peter Kowald, Ray Anderson, Michael Moore, Ken Vandermark, Greg Osby, Kenny Wheeler, Louis Sclavis, John Betsch, Jane Ira Bloom, Connie and Hannes Bauer, Xu Fengxia, James Newton, Muhal Richard Abrams, John Lindberg, Michael Formaneck, Ernst Reijseger, Fred van Hove, Theo Jörgensmann, Phil Minton, Peter Brötzmann, Mark Dresser, Mark Feldman, Hamid Drake, Michiel Braam, Han Bennink, Mal Waldron, Misha Mengelberg a.m.o."

-Frank Gratkowski Website (http://gratkowski.com/biography/)
3/27/2024

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"Dieter Manderscheid (born March 31, 1956 in Trier ) is a German jazz bassist.

Manderscheid studied music in Saarbrücken and Cologne from 1977 to 1984. In addition to the solo work, Manderscheid performed in various fixed formations: in the duo with Frank Gratkowski, in the quartet with Frank Gratkowski, Wolter Wierbos and Gerry Hemingway, in the quartet with Martin Blume, Johannes Bauer and Luc Houtkamp, in a duo with Thomas Heberer and the trio Village Zone with Georg Ruby and Christian Thomé and the Syntopia Quartet by Albrecht Maurer. With the James Choice Orchestra, he appeared at the MusikTriennale in Cologne in 2007.

Manderscheid has performed regularly at German and international jazz festivals ( JazzFest Berlin, Deutsches JazzFestival Frankfurt, Tampere Jazz Happening, Jazz Yatra Bombay, JazzFestival Vancouver ) and concert tours through Asia, Africa and the USA, commissioned by the Goethe-Institut. In 1990 he received the prize of the German record critics. He taught at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt am Main from 1991 to 1998 and since 1994 he has been a professor for jazz double bass at the Cologne University of Music. He also gives workshops at the Darmstadt holiday courses for new music."

-Wikipedia (translated by Google) (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Manderscheid)
3/27/2024

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Track Listing:



Frank Gratkowski-alto sax, clarinet, bass and contrabass clarinet

Herb Nabatov-trumpet, coronet

Simon Robertson-piano, e-bows, cracklebox

Dieter Manderscheid-doublebass

Related Categories of Interest:

Leo Records
Improvised Music
Jazz
European Improvisation, Composition and Experimental Forms
July 2007
Quartet Recordings

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