Caroline Kraabel

After living in Seattle, Kraabel moved to London while in her teenage years.{{cite news|title=Improvised music, but with a head start |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2002037384_jazz17.html |work=The Seattle Times |date=17 September 2004 |accessdate=2009-01-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524135502/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2002037384_jazz17.html |archivedate=2011-05-24 }} She started playing saxophone and became active in London's improvised music scene, developing a style based on extended techniques and acoustics. She performed solo and with John Edwards, Veryan Weston,{{cite news |title=Emanem, l'improvisation britannique au bout du tunnel |url=http://www.chronicart.com/webmag/article.php?page=2&id=928 |work=Chronicart.com |publisher=Les Editions Réticulaires |date=12 April 2001 |accessdate=2009-01-09 |language=French |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708153333/http://www.chronicart.com/webmag/article.php?page=2&id=928 |archive-date=8 July 2011 |url-status=dead }} Charlotte Hug, Maggie Nicols,{{cite news |title=Music - The Albert memorial Kerstan Mackness looks at punk-jazz icon Albert Ayler who, 36 years after his death, finds himself at the centre of this year's London Jazz Festival |url=http://moreresults.factiva.com/results/index/index.aspx?ref=TIMEO00020061109e2b80001u |work=Time Out |date=8 November 2006 |accessdate=2009-01-09 |format=fee required}} Phil Hargreaves, and the London Improvisors Orchestra.{{cite news |title=London Improvisers Orchestra, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/london-improvisers-orchestra-warwick-arts-centre-coventry--none-onestar-twostar-threestar-fourstar-fivestar-522525.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025082336/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/london-improvisers-orchestra-warwick-arts-centre-coventry--none-onestar-twostar-threestar-fourstar-fivestar-522525.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |work=The Independent |date=11 January 2006 |accessdate=2009-01-09 | first=Martin | last=Longley}} She organized and conducted pieces for Mass Producers, a 20-piece, all-female saxophone/voice orchestra{{cite news |title=Czarodzieje i saksofoniści |url=http://szukaj.wyborcza.pl/archiwum/1,0,1072950.html |work=Gazeta Wyborcza |date=7 April 2000 |accessdate=2009-01-09 |language=Polish |format=fee required }} and for Saxophone Experimentals in Space, a 55-piece group of young saxophonists. Kraabel hosted a weekly radio show on Resonance FM{{cite news |title=Never mind the xollob |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jan/15/broadcasting.arts |work=The Guardian |date=15 January 2003 |accessdate=2009-01-09 | location=London | first=Will | last=Hodgkinson}} and is the editor for the London Musicians Collective's magazine Resonance.

Albums include Transitions with Maggie Nichols and Charlotte Hug,{{cite book |title=Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia |last=Jenkins |first=Todd S. |year=2004 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-33314-9 |page=254 }} 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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