Frank Gratkowski

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Zeitkratzer Frank Gratkowski Project GrubenKlangOrchester Frank Gratkowski Trio Frank Gratkowski Quartet Simon Nabatov Octet Georg Gräwe Quartet Oirtrio Herb Robertson Trio Herb Robertson & The Space Cadets Pata Orchester Achim Kaufmann / Frank Gratkowski / Wilbert De Joode James Choice Orchestra Shift Bik Bent Braam All Ears Duh Draft Ekkehard Jost Nonet Multiple Joyce Orchestra Carl Ludwig Hübsch's Primordial Soup Fo[u]r Alto Tony Oxley's Celebration Orchestra Bop Cats FPR Pascal Niggenkemper Vision7 Transalpin Express Orchestra Giessen-Köln-Nonett Z-Country Paradise SKEIN Meinrad Kneer's Phosphoros Ensemble Pata Generators Oliwood Strange Meeting Trokaan Project Stefan Schultze Septet Sonic Fiction Orchestra The Resonators Frank Gratkowski's Entrainment

ex Scott Fields Ensemble, Franck Band, Simon Nabatov Quartet, Frank Schulte Switchbox

Clarinetist and saxophonist, born 1963, Hamburg, Germany.

ALBA

Liz Allbee, Sergio Armaroli, Tony Buck, Andrea Centazzo, Frank Gratkowski, John Edwards, Elisabeth Harnik, Elena Margarita Kakaliagou*, Liz Kosack, Veli Kujala, Libero Mureddu, Olavi Louhivuori, Guilherme Rodrigues, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Livia Schweizer, Harri Sjöström, Sebastiano Tramontana*, Els Vandeweyer, Philipp Wachsmann

SoundScapes Festival # 4 Berlin - 2023 Silent Green

2025, 3xCD, Album, Fundacja Słuchaj!,

Free Improvisation

Ernesto Rodrigues, Frank Gratkowski, Guilherme Rodrigues, Michael Griener

Unstable Molecules

2024, CD, Album, Ltd, Creative Sources

Frank Gratkowski & Simon Nabatov

2023, CD, Album, Clean Feed,

Free Improvisation

Frank Gratkowski - Harri Sjöström

2023, 4xFile, WAV, EP, Not On Label (Frank Gratkowski Self-released)

Frank Gratkowski

Artikulationen III

2023, CD, Album, Ltd, ImproDimensija Records,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation

Fo[u]r Alto, Frank Gratkowski

2 Compositions By Frank Gratkowski

Georg Graewe* / Frank Gratkowski / Fred Lonberg-Holm*

Trilinear Polarity

2022, CD, Album, Fundacja Słuchaj!

Gratkowski* / Kujala* / Schick*

2022, CD, Album, Impakt (3)

Friedl* / Gratkowski*

2022, CD, Album, Bocian Records

Frank Gratkowski, Ensemble Modern

Mature Hybird Talking

2022, CD, Album, Maria de Alvear World Edition

Liz Allbee, Frank Gratkowski, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Achim Kaufmann, Richard Barrett, Wilbert De Joode, Tony Buck : SKEIN

Spectra & Affrays

Free Improvisation

Frank Gratkowski & Elisabeth Harnik

2021, CD, Album, Klanggalerie,

Free Improvisation

Brüssel*, Gratkowski*, Ohlmeier*, Seidel*

Gratkowski* - Nabatov* - Mahnig*

Dance Hall Stories

2020, CD, Album, Leo Records,

Free Improvisation

Frank Gratkowski / Darren Moore / Wilbert de Joode / Yong Yandsen* / Achim Kaufmann / Kok Siew Wai*

2020, CD, Album, Lao Ban,

Free Improvisation

Frank Gratkowski, Achim Kaufmann, Wilbert De Joode, Tony Buck

Flatbosc & Cautery

2020, CD, Album, NoBusiness Records

Frank Gratkowski, Elisabeth Harnik

2020, 2xFile, FLAC, Album, SoundOut Recordings

Gratkowski* / Zoubek* / Landfermann* / Mahnig*

Torbid Daylight

Davide Barbarino, Frank Gratkowski

Botanical Studies

2019, 7xFile, WAV, Album, Not On Label (Davide Barbarino Self-released)

Frank Gratkowski - Simon Nabatov

2017, CD, Album, Leo Records

Adachi* / Buck* / Frangenheim* / Gratkowski*

2017, CD, Album, Creative Sources,

Free Improvisation

Denhoff* / Phillipp* / Fischer* & Frank Gratkowski

Denhoff / Phillipp / Fischer & Frank Gratkowski

2017, CD, Album, sporeprint

Kiap Feat. Frank Gratkowski

2017, CD, Album, Hevhetia,

Contemporary Jazz

Frank Gratkowski / Sebi Tramontana

Live At Španski Borci

2016, CD, Album, Leo Records,

Free Improvisation

Grosse Abfahrt – Frank Gratkowski, Kjell Nordeson, Lisa Mezzacappa, Phillip Greenlief, John Bischoff, Tom Djll, Gino Robair, Tim Perkis, Matt Ingalls, John Shiurba

Luftschifffeiertagserinnerungfotoalbum

2016, CDr, Album, Setola Di Maiale,

Free Improvisation/Experimental

Gratkowski* / Kruglov* / Nabatov* / Yudanov*

Leo Records 35th Anniversary Moscow

2015, CD, Album, Leo Records

Vorfeld*, Scott*, Gratkowski*

Sieben Entrückte Lieder

Frank Gratkowski & Udo Schindler

Sounding Dialectics

2014, CD, Album, Ltd, Creative Sources,

Free Improvisation

Frank Gratkowski, Achim Kaufmann, Wilbert de Joode, Okkyung Lee, Richard Barrett, Tony Buck : SKEIN

2014, CD, Album, Leo Records,

Free Improvisation

Marco Colonna Featuring Michel Godard, Frank Gratkowski

2014, CD, Album, Hoaxhobo

Gratkowski* / Brown* / Winant* + Gerhard E. WInkler

Vermilion Traces / Donaueschingen 2009

2012, 2xCD, Album, Leo Records

Fo[u]r Alto, Frank Gratkowski

4 Compositions By Frank Gratkowski

2012, CD, Album, Leo Records,

Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz

Gratkowski*, Nabatov*, Schmickler*

2010, CD, Album, Leo Records

Gratkowski* / Anderskov*

2010, CD, Album, Red Toucan Records,

Free Improvisation

Frank Gratkowski, Sebi Tramontana

15 Instant Songs

2010, CDr, Album, Ltd, Not On Label (Sebi Tramontana Self-released)

Frank Gratkowski, Hamid Drake

Frank Gratkowski Hamid Drake

2010, CD, Album, Valid Records (2)

Frank Gratkowski / Scott R. Looney / Damon Smith / Kjell Nordeson

2009, CDr, Balance Point Acoustics

Frank Gratkowski / Alexey Lapin / Sebastian Gramss / Helen Bledsoe

2009, CD, Album, Leo Records

Gratkowski* / Brown* / Winant*

2008, CD, Album, Red Toucan Records

Gratkowski* – Robertson* – Nabatov* – Manderscheid*

2007, CD, Album, Leo Records

Frank Gratkowski, Misha Mengelberg

Frank Gratkowski Vis-à-vis Misha Mengelberg

2006, CD, Album, Leo Records

Frank Gratkowski / Thomas Lehn / Melvyn Poore

Triskaidekaphonia

2006, CD, Album, Leo Records

Uwe Oberg, Jörg Fischer (2), Georg Wolf + Frank Gratkowski

2006, CD, Album, Konnex Records

Gratkowski* / Fox* / Menestres* / Davis*

2006, CD, Album, Umbrella (3)

Frank Gratkowski / Jerome Bryerton / Damon Smith

The Voice Imitator

2003, CD, Album, Balance Point Acoustics

Frank Gratkowski / Fred van Hove / Tony Oxley

2002, CD, Album, Nuscope Recordings

Frank Gratkowski / Georg Gräwe / John Lindberg

2001, CD, Album, Red Toucan Records

Frank Gratkowski / Georg Graewe* / Paul Lovens

2001, CD, Album, Meniscus,

Free Improvisation

Frank Gratkowski

Artikulationen II

2000, CD, Album, 2nd Floor Edition

Frank Gratkowski / Georg Graewe*

1993, CD, Album, Random Acoustics (2),

Free Improvisation

Frank Gratkowski

Gratkowski* - Schubert* - Reijseger* - Manderscheid* - Krämer*

CD, Album, 2nd Floor Edition

Frank Gratkowski, Frank Köllges, Thomas Borgmann, Dr. Borg

Live At Gebaeude 9 # Cologne # 20.12.01 # Rat Tomago Club

CDr, Promo, Not On Label,

Free Improvisation

Z-Country Paradise

2018, CD, Album, Leo Records,

Contemporary Jazz

Achim Kaufmann, Frank Gratkowski, Wilbert de Joode*

2016, CD, Album, Leo Records

Z-Country Paradise

Z-Country Paradise

2015, CD, Album, Z-Paradise Records,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation

Frank Gratkowski Quartet

Le Vent Et La Gorge

2012, CD, Album, Leo Records

Songs From Aipotu

2011, CD, Album, Leo Records,

Free Improvisation

Frank Gratkowski Project

2004, 2xCD, Album, Leo Records,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Frank Gratkowski Quartet

2004, CD, Album, Leo Records,

Free Improvisation/Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

Frank Gratkowski Quartet

Spectral Reflections

2003, CD, Album, Leo Records

Frank Gratkowski Quartet

2001, CD, Album, Red Toucan Records,

Free Improvisation

Frank Gratkowski Trio

The Flume Factor

1998, CD, Album, Random Acoustics (2),

Free Improvisation/Free Jazz

2013, CD, Album, Relative Pitch Records

Herb Robertson & The Space Cadets

Sketches From The Other Side, For A.I.

2006, CD, Album, Ruby Flower Records

2 Compositions By Frank Gratkowski

Scott Fields Ensemble

2021, CD, Album, Moral Machine Records,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz

Stefan Schultze Septet

2020, CD, Album, WhyPlayJazz

Scott Fields Ensemble

2020, CD, Album, New World Records,

Trokaan Project

Avant-garde Jazz

Zeitkratzer Performs Songs From The Albums "Kraftwerk 2" And "Kraftwerk"

2017, CD, Album, Yellowbird

Zeitkratzer Performs Songs From The Albums "Kraftwerk" And "Kraftwerk 2"

2017, Vinyl 180 gram,

Contemporary/Experimental

Column One: Entropium

2015, Vinyl 180 gram,

Industrial/Experimental/Noise

Zeitkratzer Play Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music

2014, 2x Vinyl 180 gram,

Contemporary/Modern

Grand Orchestra

2013, CD, Album, Tochnit Aleph, Zeitkratzer Records,

Achim Kaufmann , Frank Gratkowski , Wilbert de Joode*

2013, CD, Album, Gligg Records

Pascal Niggenkemper Vision7

2013, CD, Album, Clean Feed

Neue Volksmusik

2012, CD, Album, zeitkratzer Records,

Experimental/Contemporary

2011, CD, Album, Red Toucan Records,

Free Improvisation

WHITEHOUSE Electronics

2010, CD, Album, Ltd, zeitkratzer Records,

Noise/Contemporary/Experimental/Avantgarde

2010, CD, Album, Not Two Records

2009, CD, Album, BBB (2),

Free Improvisation

James Choice Orchestra

Live At Musik Triennale Köln

2008, CD, Album, Leo Records

Achim Kaufmann / Frank Gratkowski / Wilbert de Joode

2007, CD, Album, Leo Records

James Choice Orchestra

2007, CD, Album, Moers Music,

Simon Nabatov Octet

A Few Incidences

2005, CD, Album, Leo Records

2005, 2xCD, Album, BBB (2),

Free Improvisation

Achim Kaufmann / Frank Gratkowski / Wilbert De Joode

2004, CD, Album, Konnex Records

Foamy Wife Hum / Line

2004, 2xCD, Album, BBB (2),

Simon Nabatov Quartet

2001, CD, Album, Leo Records

Frank Gratkowski Trio

1996, CD, Album, Jazz Haus Musik

1996, CD, Album, Microphone Records (3),

Avant-garde Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Prog Rock

Ekkehard Jost Nonet

Out Of Jost's Songbook

1994, CD, Album, Fish Music

Travelling Birds

1993, CD, Album, Jazz Haus Musik

1993, CD, Album, Jazz Haus Musik,

1992, CD, Album, Jazz Haus Musik,

Jazz-Rock/Fusion

1991, CD, Album, Jazz Haus Musik,

Two Generations

1985, LP, Not On Label

KOMPILACE +

Georg Graewe* & Sonic Fiction Orchestra

In Concert, Bochum 2022

2024, CD, Album, Random Acoustics (2)

Spectra & Affrays

Free Improvisation

Katastrofik Kink Machine

Frank Gratkowski's Entrainment

Frank Gratkowski's Entrainment

Kaufmann Gratkowski De Joode*

2023, 4xFile, WAV, Album, Trokaan,

Free Improvisation

Zeitkratzer, Reinhold Friedl

2023, Vinyl 180 gram,

Multiple Joy[ce] Orchestra*

2022, 2xFile, WAV, MiniAlbum, Not On Label (Carl Ludwig Hübsch Self-released)

The Multiple Joy[ce] Orchestra*

Works By Carl Ludwig Hübsch

Free Improvisation

2020, CD, Album, Leo Records,

Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation

Georg Graewe* & Sonic Fiction Orchestra

Fortschritt Und Vergnügen

2020, CD, Album, Random Acoustics (2)

Reinhold Friedl - Ensemble 2E2M & Zeitkratzer

2020, CD, Album, Zeitkratzer,

Avantgarde/Contemporary

Zeitkratzer & Mariam Wallentin

The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Zeitkratzer & Terre Thaemlitz

Deproduction (Live)

2019, 2xCD, Album, Comatonse Recordings, zeitkratzer Records,

Ambient/Modern Classical

Readings - Gileya Revisited

2019, CD, Album, Leo Records,

Avant-garde Jazz

Readings - Red Cavalry

2019, CD, Album, Leo Records

Burkhard Schlothauer

Harmonies And Structures

2019, CD, Album, Edition Wandelweiser Records,

Georg Graewe Quartet*

Amsterdam, October 1998

2019, CD, Album, Random Acoustics (2)

Zeitkratzer + Elliott Sharp

Oneirika (Live At Berghain Berlin)

2017, Vinyl 180 gram,

Contemporary/Post-Modern

Zeitkratzer, Svetlana Spajić* / Dragana Tomić / Obrad Milić

Serbian War Songs

2017, Vinyl 180 gram,

Contemporary/Folk

Antanas Rekašius - Apartment House

Fonogramatika = Phonogrammar

2016, CD, Album, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre

Reinhold Friedl performed by Zeitkratzer

2016, Vinyl 180 gram,

Modern/Contemporary

Zeitkratzer + Keiji Haino, Stockhausen*

Aus Den Sieben Tagen

2016, Vinyl 180 gr, gatefold sleeve,

Modern/Contemporary

Meinrad Kneer's Phosphoros Ensemble

Plays Christian Morgenstern

West Coast Soundings

2014, 2xCD, Edition Wandelweiser Records

Matthias Schubert

9 Compositions for The Multiple Joy[ce] Ensemble

2014, CD, Album, Red Toucan Records,

Markus Pesonen Hendectet

2014, CD, Barefoot Records (2)

Jorrit Dijkstra

Music For Reeds And Electronics: Oakland

2014, CD, Album, Driff Records,

Avant-garde Jazz

Sun Ra ✕ Olga Neuwirth . Unsuk Chin — Ensemble Musikfabrik*

2014, CD, Album, WERGO

Whitehouse Performed Live By Zeitkratzer Guest William Bennett

2014, Vinyl 180 gram,

Zeitkratzer + Keiji Haino

Live At Jahrhunderthalle Bochum

2014, Vinyl 180gr,

Modern/Contemporary

Scott Fields & Multiple Joyce Orchestra

Moersbow / Ozzo

2011, CD, Album, Clean Feed,

Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation

Zeitkratzer : Karlheinz Stockhausen

Old School: Karlheinz Stockhausen

2011, CD, Album, Zeitkratzer Records,

Modern/Contemporary

Carl Ludwig Hübsch's Primordial Soup

2011, CD, Album, Jazzwerkstatt, Jazzwerkstatt

Grubenklang.Reloaded

2011, DVD-V, Ltd, Random Acoustics (2),

Spoken Word/Free Jazz/Poetry/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation/Contemporary

Zeitkratzer : John Cage

Old School: John Cage

2010, CD, Album, Zeitkratzer Records,

Florian Bergmann

2010, CD, Album, Umlaut Records

Earth Music - Ten Years of Meridian Music: Composers In Performance

2010, CD, Album, Innova Recordings

Zeitkratzer : Alvin Lucier

Old School: Alvin Lucier

Minimal/Abstract/Post-Modern/Experimental

Zeitkratzer : James Tenney

Old School: James Tenney

Contemporary/Post-Modern

November Music 2009

2009, CD, Comp, November Music,

Abstract/Experimental

2009, CD, Album, Rebeat Music International

Karkowski* • Furudate* • Zeitkratzer

World As Will III

2008, CD, Album, Sub Rosa,

Noise/Drone/Contemporary/Experimental

Zeitkratzer & Carsten Nicolai

2008, CD, Album, Zeitkratzer Records

Zeitkratzer & Terre Thaemlitz

2008, CD, Album, Zeitkratzer Records

zeitkratzer & Keiji Haino

2008, CD, Album, zeitkratzer Records,

Noise/Modern Classical/Avantgarde/Experimental

zeitkratzer & Carsten Nicolai / Terre Thaemlitz / Keiji Haino

2008, 3xCD, Comp + Box, Zeitkratzer Records, Deutscher Musikrat

Reinhold Friedl Performed By Zeitkratzer

Xenakis [A]Live!

2007, CD + DVD-V, Multichannel, NTSC, Asphodel

Carl Ludwig Hübsch's Primordial Soup

Primordial Soup

2007, CD, Album, Red Toucan Records

Reinhold Friedl - Markus Weiser*, Ensemble Zeitkratzer*, Franz Hautzinger

Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire Cheap Imitation

2007, CD, Zeitkratzer Records,

Contemporary/Post-Modern/Vocal

Herb Robertson Trio + Marcin Oleś & Bartłomiej Brat Oleś*

Live At Alchemia

2007, CD, Album, Not Two Records

Leo Records 25th Anniversary Loft, Koln

2007, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, Leo Records,

Free Improvisation/Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

Gerry Hemingway Quintet

Double Blues Crossing

2005, CD, Album, Between The Lines

Kaufmann / Gratkowski / De Joode*

2005, CD, Album, Nuscope Recordings,

Free Improvisation

This Is Storehouse Music Volume 1 & 2

2005, 2xCD, Comp, VHS Leer,

Norbert Stein, Pata Generators

2005, CD, Pata Music,

2004, CD, Album, Leo Records

Phillip Greenlief

Stalking Andrei

2004, CD, Album, Evander Music

2004, 2xCD, Comp, Red Toucan Records

Micro-East Collective

2001, CD, Album, Umbrella (3),

Free Improvisation

The Georg Gräwe Quartet*

Melodie Und Rhythmus

1999, CD, Album, Okka Disk, Okka Disk,

Free Improvisation

Georg Gräwe Quartett*

1999, CDr, Album, Not On Label,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Georg Gräwe Quartett*

1999, CDr, Album, Not On Label,

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Bentje Braam - Trio BraamDeJoodeVatcher

Playing The Second Coolbook / Monk Materials

1998, 2xCD, Album, BV Haast Records

The H.E.A.R.T. Project

1998, CD, Album, Enja Records

Some Other Tapes

Free Improvisation

Klaus König (3) - David Moss - The Bobs - Klaus König Orchestra

1996, CD, Album, Enja Records, Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW

Hayden Chisholm

1996, CD, Album, Jazz Haus Musik

Tunes For Horn Guys

1995, CD, Album, Ramboy Recordings

Tony Oxley Celebration Orchestra*

The Enchanted Messenger

1995, CD, Album, Soul Note

The Right Bullets, Robert Gallinowski, Ulrich Kuhlmann, Steffen Laube, Franz Nagler, Josiane Peiffer, Katja Reinke

The Black Rider (The Casting Of The Magic Bullets)

1995, CD, wit, Schauspiel Bonn,

Georg Graewe GrubenKlangOrchester*

Flavours, Fragments

1994, CD, Album, ITM Classics

1994, CD, Album, Random Acoustics (2)

1994, CD, Album, No Man's Land,

Ruhm Kennt Keine Gnade

1994, CD, Album, Electrola

Matthias Petzold

Psalmen Und Lobgesänge

1994, CD, Album, Indigo-Records

Klaus König Orchestra

1994, CD, Album, Enja Records

Humba 1 - Fastelovend-Roots-Projekt

Schlager/Samba/African

The Song Of Songs

1993, CD, Album, Enja Records,

Avant-garde Jazz/Contemporary/Big Band/Gospel/Oratorio/Choral/Vocal

Norbert Stein, Pata Orchester

The Secret Act Of Painting

1993, CD, Pata Music,

Stadtgarten Series Vol. 7

1993, CD, Album, Jazz Haus Musik,

Contemporary Jazz

Klaus König Orchestra

At The End Of The Universe - Hommage A Douglas Adams

1991, CD, Album, Enja Records,

Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz/Big Band

Joachim Ullrich

Faces Of The Duke

1991, CD, Album, Jazz Haus Musik,

Stadtgarten Series Vol. 5

1991, CD, Album, Comp, Jazz Haus Musik,

Stadtgarten Series Vol. 3

1990, CD, Album, Comp, Jazz Haus Musik,

Contemporary Jazz

Stadtgarten Series Vol. 1

1989, CD, Album, Comp, Jazz Haus Musik

Times Of Devastation - Music For Orchestra -, Poco A Poco - Music For Septet -

1989, 2xCD, Album, Enja Records

Wolfgang Niedecken & Complizen

Or The Other - Multiphonics Im Werkhaus Muenzviertel (2014-2017)

2018, CD, Ltd, Not On Label,

Free Improvisation/Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz/Experimental

2000, CD, Comp, Swezlex

Inquiries Into Sonic Conception - CD Publications 1993

1993, Flexi, 5½", S/Sided, Card, Promo, Smplr, Cle, Random Acoustics (2),

Experimental/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation