a r t i s t : Frank Gratkowski, Georg Graewe, John Lindberg
t i t l e : Arrears
d a t e : 2002
l a b e l : Red Toucan
g e n r e : Jazz
r l s. d a t e : May/2008
t r a c k s : 05
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 73,4 MB
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Georg Graewe (piano)
John Lindberg (bass)
Frank Gratkowski (alto saxophone,clarinet, bass and contrabass
clarinet)
All compositions by Gratkowski/Graewe/Lindberg
recorded live at Loft, Koln, Germany
on April 11th, 2001
About this trio
I first met John Lindberg during a tour I did in
November/December 2000. Georg Graewe had run into him in New
York a few weeks before and mentioned that John was back in
Detroit, and since I came thru I invited him to play. Our
paths had never crossed, but he immediately agreed, when I
called him up. So on a cold winter's night on December 9, 2000
we found ourselves on stage at ENTROPY, Detroit and it turned
out that we love playing together and that we have to continue
. . . When John came to Europe the following spring I set up a
trio concert with him and Georg at the LOFT in Cologne, the
same place where my first duo concert with Georg had been
recorded nine years before ( released as "VicessEtudes" on
Random Acoustics). In fact, my collaboration with him goes
back to 1990 when he hired me for his GRUBENKLANG ORCHESTRA
(Lindberg had been in that band in 1985/ 86), and since 1997
I've been a regular member of THE GEORG GRAEWE QUARTET.
Listening back to the tapes some six months after the show, I
liked them so much, that I immediately decided they had to be
released, and I'm very glad that Michel Passaretti shares my
opinion. For me this recording documents a magical evening.
Georg and John had not played together in almost 15 years and,
as you can hear on this CD , they match perfectly from the
first moment on. It is definitely one of the best examples of
what I call instantly composed chamber music and I hope that
this Trio will have a chance to continue. At this point, I
would like to thank Georg and John for making this beautiful
music possible and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do.
Frank Gratkowski Koln, Germany, February 2002
This second outstanding Frank Gratkowski release on Red
Toucan in recent times (after the magnificent "Kollaps", RT
9317), featuring the clarinettist/saxophonist in a trio with
pianist Graewe and bassist Lindberg, presents a different kind
of energy from that usually associated with free jazz
(centrifugal ¡ musical ideas sent spinning out into space/time
with near abandon); every flutter from Lindberg's bass,
splayed arpeggio and ornament from Graewe and arching phrase
from Gratkowski seems to focus the attention inwards, while at
the same time never losing sight of the larger architectural
scheme of things. Instrumental virtuosity (not in short supply
with these three musicians) is no longer a question of
projecting outward, but rather spirals into the moment itself
¡ the commitment is intense and the result thrilling. Genre
definitions mean little ¡ "Arrears" inhabits a space situated
somewhere between free jazz and improv (not to mention
contemporary classical: Graewe's pianism owes as much to Aloys
Kontarsky as it does to Cecil Taylor) ¡ let's just call this
music. And very fine music it is too.
Dan Warburton; Paris Transatlantic Magazine
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01-arrears i [11:47]
02-arrears ii [07:32]
03-arrears iii [15:00]
04-arrears iv [13:12]
05-arrears v [09:49]
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