Caroline Kraabel

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Caroline Kraabel (* 1961 in San Francisco ) is an American improvisation musician ( alto saxophone , baritone saxophone , voice) and composer. She has expanded her playing techniques by switching extremely quickly between voice and saxophone playing.

Live and act

Kraabel grew up in Seattle and moved to London in 1979 . In 1989 she founded the post-punk band The Honkies , which integrated theater and free music. She subsequently performed with musicians such as Evan Parker , Maggie Nicols and Veryan Weston . With her solo performance Now We Are Two , she toured Europe and North America from 1997. She plays in a duo with John Edwards ( The Shock Exchange ), in the band X Ray Eyes and in the large-format saxophone ensemble Mass Producers .

She performed her compositions with the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO), which she directs, and in 2011 in Graz with a large improvisation ensemble at the V: NM Festival. The LIO meets regularly, if possible once a month.

Kraabel also composed for the theater. She had a radio show on Resonance FM , wandering around London with her children and the saxophone, and is one of the editors of the Resonance music magazine .

Kraabel also works as a translator.

Discographic notes

  • The Honkies Who Eats (1993)
  • Now We Are One Two (1995-1997)
  • Kraabel / Hug / Nicols Transitions (2001, with Charlotte Hug and Maggie Nicols)
  • Veryan Weston / Caroline Kraabel: Five Shadows (Emanem 2001)
  • Caroline Kraabel / Charles Hayward Where We Were (2004)
  • Mass Producers Performances for Large Saxophone Ensemble 1 and 2 (2002)
  • Giving Out / In the Garden City (2009, with Susan Alcorn and Annie Lewandowski)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Longley: London Improvisers Orchestra, Warwick Arts Center, Coventry . In: The Independent , January 11, 2006. Retrieved June 26, 2011. 
  2. ↑ See V: NM 2011
  3. ↑ Youtube Description of March 27, 2008
  4. ^ Will Hodgkinson: Never mind the xollob . In: The Guardian , January 15, 2003. Retrieved June 26, 2011. 
  5. ↑ An interview with Caroline Kraabel. July 25, 2016, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Alexandre Papas: Thus spake the dervish. Sufism, language, and the religious margins in Central Asia, 1400-1900 . Brill, Leiden and Boston 2019, ISBN 978-90-04-40202-7 .
  7. ^ All About Jazz, April 1, 2001: Review
  8. ↑ Meeting ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.splendidezine.com
personal data
SURNAME Kraabel, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco