Other Songs
   Georg Gräwe (piano)
   Peter van Bergen (tenor saxophone and
                                    contrabass clarinet)
   Barre Phillips (bass)

Other Songs is Georg Gräwe’s recording debut with the underrated reedist Peter van Bergen. This new disc also fulfills the Graewe's ambition of recording with the legendary double-bassist Barre Phillips.   Recorded during the du Maurier International Jazz Festival, the music on this disc is dark, chilling, and sparse, but never foreboding.

According to journalist Bill Shoemaker, "(There is a) fluent, fluid conversational quality that pervades this recording. Though the exchanges are as often laconic and punctuated by pungent silences as they are flinty and banter-filled, there is a sureness in each utterance that contributes to the overall mood of the program. This album has an inviting, relaxed mood, a bold stroke in improvised music."

Features a 8-page booklet with liner notes by jazz journalist Bill Shoemaker and cover art by the great German artist Gerhard Richter.

Total time:  57:02.

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