• DIGIPACK EDITION

German pianist Georg Gräwe, one of the most impeccable and imaginative improvisers in contemporary free music, made his debut recording, New Movements, in 1976, under the auspices of Free Music Production, the legendary Berlin-based organization run by Jost Gebers.

At FMP’s Jazz Now festival, in April of that year, Gräwe presented his working band, a classic hard-bop configuration with trumpet, saxophone and rhythm section. Indeed, some vestiges of that hard-bop feel permeate the music, however it’s been fractured and expanded in its ambitions to include post-bop, free-bop, free jazz, and free improvisation, all with an overall set of structures that betray Gräwe’s deep interest in contemporary classical forms. It is an audacious debut, one of the most thrilling jazz-related European outings to emerge from the FMP program.

PERSONNEL:

• Horst Grabosch - (trumpet)
• Harald Dau - (soprano, tenor sax)
• Georg Gräwe - (piano)
• Hans Schneider - (bass)
• Achim Krämer - (drums)

Recorded live during “Jazz Now” at the Quarter Latin/Berlin April 19th, 1976

TRACKS:

• 01. New Movements (23:04 minutes)
• 02. Green Screen (14:22 minutes)
• 03. V 626 (12:27 minutes)