First set: FPR TRIO

The FPR Trio features Koln saxophonist Frank Gratkowski, Evander Music founder and saxophonist Phillip Greenlief, and ROVA Saxophone Quartet founding member Jon Raskin. These three musicians bring a wealth of experience to their wind trio. Their performances present a variety of composition techniques and improvisation strategies. The music veers recklessly from densely colored sound collage to minute lower case sound explorations to ecstatic free jazz energy-driven music. The compositions can call upon carefully-notated, tightly assembled melodic lines or loosely structured suggestions for free improvisation. Regardless of the process, this is one of the finer wind trios working today - a claim
that is supported by the fact that audiences have continued to come again and again over the past six years to find out what the trio's next move might be.

Second set: DUO Frank Gratkowski & David Wessel