Gratkowski / Graewe (plus ....)

Frank Gratkowski (D) as, cl, bcl, cbcl
Georg Graewe (D) piano
plus .....

The collaboration between Frank Gratkowski and Georg Graewe goes back to 1990. Since then, Gratkowski has been a regular member of Graewe's Grubenklang Orchester. Both have been working as a duo since 1992 and a CD "VicessEtudes" was released on Random Acoustics in 1992 - it is unfortunately out of print at this time.

In 1996, Gratkowski and Graewe made a very successful tour in the US, and in 1997 the Georg Graewe Quartet (with Kent Kessler and Hamid Drake from Chicago on bass and drums, and Gratkowski on Reeds) was founded. In the same year, the Quartet recorded a CD (Melodie und Rhythmus) for Okka Disk. Besides the Quartet, Gratkowski and Graewe still work as a Duo and even more often they extend the Duo with musicians like the German drummer Paul Lovens (CD "Quicksand") or more recently with bassist John Lindberg from the US (CD "Arrears").