Sebastian Gramss is a German

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, cellist, and composer of

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and

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. He received the Echo award for double bass in 2013 and 2018.

Biography

Gramss studied double bass at Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Hochschule für Musik Köln. He is composing for various groups as well as for radio plays, drama, film soundtracks and ballet. (He wrote among others for Pina Bausch.) Since 2009 he teaches Ensemble/Improvisation and double bass at Hochschule für Musik Köln and at "Institut für Musik Osnabrück". In 1993 Gramss founded the group "Underkarl" with Frank Wingold (guitar), Lömsch Lehmann (saxophone), Dirk-Peter Kölsch (drums) and Nils Wogram (trombone), still active as of 2017. He played with Frank Gratkowski, Tatsuya Nakatani, Rudi Mahal, Marilyn Crispell,

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, Hannes Bauer, Heinz von Cramer, Terry Jenoure, Marjana Sadowska. He organized several groups for double bass such as the 50-member band "Bassmasse".

Discography (selection)

* ''The Remedy'', with

, among others (JazzHausMusik, 1993) * Underkarl – ''20th Century Jazz Cover'' (Tcb, 1996) * Underkarl – ''Jazzessence'' (Tcb, 1999) * Underkarl – ''Maraton'' (Scat, 2001) * Underkarl – ''Second Brain'' and ''Freemix (Second Brain Revisited)'' (

Enja Enja Records is a German jazz record company and label based in Munich which was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971. The label's first release was by Mal Waldron, and early releases included European and ...

, 2003) * Terry Jenoure / Helios String Quartet / Sebastian Gramss – ''Looks Like Me'' (Free Elephant, 2006) * Underkarl – ''Goldberg'' (Enja, 2007) * oirTrio – ''Kanata'' (Nottwo, 2008, with Frank Gratkowski and Tatsuya Nakatani) * Das Mollsche Gesetz – ''Catalogue of Improvisation'' ( WERGO, 2008) * Fossile3 – ''Chomics'' ( Konnex, 2010, with Rudi Mahall, Etienne Nillesen) * Sebastian Gramss / Frank Gratkowski / Alexei Lapin / Helen Bledsoe – ''Unplugged Mind'' (

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, 2009) * Leonhard Huhn / Sebastian Gramss – ''Duke Ellington's Far East Suite'' (fixcel, 2011) * Marilyn Crispell / Erwin Ditzner / Sebastian Gramss – ''Free Flight'' (fixcel, 2011) * Underkarl – ''Homo Ludens'' (Rent a Dog, 2012) * ''Atopie'', solo (JazzHausMusik, 2012) * ''78 RPM'', Fossile 3 (Gligg-Records 2013) * ''Bassmasse / Schwarm'', Kontrabassorchester (Gligg-Records 2013) *Clarinet Summit ''Clarinet Summit'' (2017), with Perry Robinson, Gianluigi Trovesi, Bernd Konrad, Theo Jörgensmann, Annette Maye, Albrecht Maurer and Günter Sommer.

References

External links

Homepage Sebastian Gramss

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