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Ingrid Laubrock
In 1989 Ingrid left Germany for London where she took up the alto saxophone.
A year of studies with ex-Jazz Messenger Jean Toussaint followed in 1992. Soprano and tenor followed shortly afterward. In 1993 she met singer Monica Vasconcelos and guitarist Ife Tolentino, both from Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Ingrid is one of the founding members of Brazilian quartet NOIS4 and also a long-time member of Vasconcelos' 9-piece band NOIS. NOIS4 has been a supporting act for Joyce, Gilberto Gil, Bryan Ferry and Airto Moreira/Flora Purim. During the summers of 1998 and 1999, Ingrid studied with renowned saxophonist and educator David Liebman in the USA. She was nominated as “Rising Star of the Year” in the BT Jazz Awards for 1999. Also in 1999, Ingrid completed her postgraduate jazz course at the Guildhall School Of Music & Drama. During that year she studied and performed with David Liebman, Kenny Wheeler, Billy Cobham, Stan Sulzman and Jean Toussaint.
2004 Ingrid was awarded the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation as part of the F-ire Collective and in 2005 she was nominated for the BBC Award as “Rising Star.”
In January 2006 Ingrid was awarded the prestigious Fellowship for Jazz Composition by the Arts Foundation.
Ingrid has been interested in working in different fields, collaborating with contemporary classical group The Continuum Ensemble and and theatre director Annabel Arden, as well as with dancer/choreographer Frauke Requardt, who choreographed a show to Ingrid's music.
Ingrid has performed with Kenny Wheeler, Evan Parker, Norma Winstone, David Liebman, Billy Cobham, Jean Toussaint, Stan Sulzman, Django Bates' Human Chain, Guinga, Jazz Jamaica Allstars, Lol Coxhill, Verywn Weston, US cult procucer David Axelrod, soul singers Dina Carroll and Gabrielle, Souxie And The Banshees, Seb Rochford's Polar Bear, Jason Yarde, Grand Union Orchestra, Roberto Pla, Sheron Wrey’s Jazz Xchange, The Continuum Ensemble, Frauke Requardt's dance company, Tom Arthurs and many more.
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Myra Melford's Fire And Water Quintet: Hear The Light Singing
by John Sharpe
Pianist Myra Melford's blue chip Fire And Water quintet assuredly sidesteps second album syndrome. Hear The Light Singing stands very much the equal of the band's superlative eponymous debut. The only change is that Lesley Mok takes Susie Ibarra's place behind the trapset, otherwise the triumvirate completing the starry squad remains Ingrid Laubrock on saxophones, Tomeka Reid on cello and Mary Halvorson on guitar. In the liners Melford explains that the five pieces titled “Insertions" here were ...
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by Alberto Bazzurro
Inciso al DiMenna Center di New York nel settembre 2022, questo album è forse il migliore, il più importante e ambizioso, realizzato dalla pianista giapponese in tempi recenti (e sappiamo quanto corposa sia la sua produzione da un po' di anni in qua). Basta, da subito, scorrere i nomi coinvolti nel progetto (in special modo il “grande vecchio" Wadada Leo Smith) per rendersene conto. La musica, poi, ci toglie da ogni dubbio o imbarazzo: siamo di fronte a un lavoro ...
read moreIngrid Laubrock: Monochromes
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist & composer Ingrid Laubrock and her partner, drummer Tom Rainey self-released an ongoing series of spontaneous duets, the Stir Crazy Episodes, recorded during the pandemic lockdown. They were most likely a kind of pressure release mechanism for both artists. With Monochromes, Laubrock heads in the opposite direction by commissioning four musicians to pre-record tape pieces based on her notations, both conventional and graphical; these form the foundations for Laubrock and three different collaborations to improvise over. The single 40-minute ...
read moreRe-Convening The Convention: jazzahead's Bold Comeback Plan
by Josef Woodard
A delicate, operational balance between sophistication, jazz cultural advocacy and marketwise boosterism has been in place since the inception of the ambitious adventure known as jazzahead!. One can sense that balance in the convention/showcase festival's very branding, with its title stylized as in coolly lowercase composite word festooned with an emphatic exclamation point, and in the bold green arrow emblazoned on its logo. The mission and implications are all about moving jazz ahead, on various levels. Each spring, ...
read moreDon't Terje Me, Bro
by Patrick Burnette
Some of our podcasts have themes. This podcast has a wide-ranging mix of three 2023 releases and one moderately historical entry from an ECM guitarist whose name Pat dare not pronounce. Can the jazz violin be a force for good? We think so. Can Pat find a Pyroclastic release that tickles his fancy? You betcha--but no more spoilers. Playlist Discussion of Ketil Bjornstad and Terje Rypdals album Live in Leipzig (ECM) 2:22 Discussion of the Canadian Jazz Collective's ...
read moreIngrid Laubrock: The Last Quiet Place
by Jerome Wilson
Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock always seems to search out new instrumental configurations for her music. This time out, she and her musical and life partner, drummer Tom Rainey, collaborate with a quartet of accomplished string players, guitarist Brandon Seabrook, violinist Mazz Swift, cellist Tomeka Reid, and bassist Michael Formanek. Together they create stimulating music which can be many things. At different times it sounds formal, urgent, placid, and violent. “Afterglow" and “Anticipation" explore some of the classical possibilities of ...
read moreIngrid Laubrock, Mario Costa, Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp / Jeff Cosgrove
by Maurice Hogue
This show is the 1,300th edition of One Man's Jazz since it debuted back in May 1999 one sunny Saturday afternoon in the studios of CKUW FM in Winnipeg. How the content has changed since then! More avant-garde, more international players, more intense, but still a joy to put together. Ordinarily I would have done some special interviews or something but being in the middle of packing and changing residences led me to just play some great music. The highlights: ...
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Michael Ricci
Germany as a partner country, this is a unique opportunity to promote jazz from Germany worldwide. True to the motto “Building Bridges", the pre-premier of the commissioned work around Ingrid Laubrock in New York is the perfect opportunity to build a bridge from Germany to the motherland of jazz. A delegation from Bremen will be travelling to the U.S. metropolis in January to present jazzahead! and this year’s partner country Germany. And that’s not all: Ingrid Laubrock will give an ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ingrid Laubrock
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Ingrid Laubrock's birthday today! Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons at the age of four and began to play classical piano and sing in local choirs aged eight. Her first recording experience dates from that time, singing the solo voice in an arrangement for an a capella choir. Throughout her childhood she performed in church choirs and public concerts at the local music school... Read more. Place our Musician of the Day ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ingrid Laubrock
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Ingrid Laubrock's birthday today!
Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons at the age of four and began to play classical piano and sing in local choirs aged eight. Her first recording experience dates from that time, singing the solo voice in an arrangement for an a capella choir. Throughout her childhood she performed in church choirs and public concerts at the local music school... Read more.
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ingrid Laubrock
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Ingrid Laubrock's birthday today!
Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons at the age of four and began to play classical piano and sing in local choirs aged eight. Her first recording experience dates from that time, singing the solo voice in an arrangement for an a capella choir. Throughout her childhood she performed in church choirs and public concerts at the local music school... Read more.
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ingrid Laubrock
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All About Jazz is celebrating Ingrid Laubrock's birthday today!
Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons at the age of four and began to play classical piano and sing in local choirs aged eight. Her first recording experience dates from that time, singing the solo voice in an arrangement for an a capella choir. Throughout her childhood she performed in church choirs and public concerts at the local music school...Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons ...
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Dream-Work
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Ars Nova Workshop
In a 2008 interview following the release of the group's debut album on Intakt Records, Ingrid Laubrock articulates Sleepthief's sound: “There's a mysterious, dreamlike feel to some of the music—and also you can be torn right out of it. But in a wholly improvised situation it's not only your own imagination, ears, taste buds and emotions that guide your playing, it's also those of the other musicians." Since late 2006, saxophonist Laubrock, pianist Liam Noble, and drummer Tom Rainey have ...
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A Saxophone is Her Only Constant
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Michael Ricci
Some young jazz musicians find their style and move in lock, stock and barrel, making little refinements over the years but basically keeping their place. Ingrid Laubrock, a German saxophonist who started her career in London and has spent the last 15 years playing there, sounds happily unsettled. On tenor and soprano, shes omnivorous and pointed, slouching and precise, humorous and austere. She doesnt stay very long within standard jazz idioms, or even some of the favored nonidiomatic languages of ...
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SWR Jazz Award for Ingrid Laubrock
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All About Jazz
Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock is the winner of this year's Southwest Germany Radio (SWR) Jazz Award, one of Germany's most prestigious music awards.
The prize money is funded by the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and SWR and is worth around $19,000.
Laubrock received the award for her album Sleepthief (Intakt, 2008), recorded with Tom Rainey (drums) and Liam Noble (piano). The jury cited Laubrock's “individual and highly personal improvisation on the saxophone" as the reason for the award.
In 2006, Laubrock was ...
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Anticipation
From: The Last Quiet PlaceBy Ingrid Laubrock
Anticipation
From: The Last Quiet PlaceBy Ingrid Laubrock
One Hundred Dreams Part 1
From: Hyaku: One Hundred DreamsBy Ingrid Laubrock
Combustion 1
From: Smoke Gets In Your EyesBy Ingrid Laubrock
Object
From: Close UpBy Ingrid Laubrock
Object
From: Close UpBy Ingrid Laubrock
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