Caroline Kraabel (born 1961 in

Torrance, California Torrance is a city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area located in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city is part of what is known as the South Bay (Los Angeles County), South Bay region of the m ...

) is an American saxophonist. Caroline Kraabel

Career

After living in Seattle, Kraabel moved to London while in her teenage years. She started playing saxophone and became active in London's

improvised music Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous ...

scene, developing a style based on

extended technique In music, extended technique is unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.Burtner, Matthew (2005).Making Noise: Extended Techniques after Expe ...

s and acoustics. She performed solo and with John Edwards,

Veryan Weston Veryan Weston (born 1950) is a British pianist active in free improvisation, jazz, and rock music. He has worked with Lol Coxhill, Eddie Prévost, Trevor Watts, Caroline Kraabel and Phil Minton. Weston was born in 1950 and lived in Cornwall be ...

, Charlotte Hug,

Maggie Nicols Maggie Nicols (or Nichols, as she originally spelled her name as a performer) (born 24 February 1948), is a Scottish free-jazz and improvising vocalist, dancer, and performer. Early life and career Nicols was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, as Mar ...

, Phil Hargreaves, and the London Improvisors Orchestra. She organized and conducted pieces for Mass Producers , a 20-piece, all-female saxophone/voice orchestra and for Saxophone Experimentals in Space, a 55-piece group of young saxophonists. Kraabel hosted a weekly radio show on

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and is the editor for the

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's magazine ''Resonance''. Albums include ''Transitions'' with Maggie Nichols and Charlotte Hug, ''Five Shadows'' with Veryan Weston, ''Performances for Large Saxophone Ensemble 1 and 2'' and ''Performances for Large Saxophone Ensemble 3 and 4'' with Mass Producers, and the solo work ''Now We Are One Two''.

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