Jazz Articles about Ingrid Laubrock

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Shawn Lovato si aggiunge alla nutrita schiera di contrabbassisti, compositori e leader di formazioni, che da anni sono diventati una presenza costante nel mondo variegato del jazz e musiche affini (Linda May Han Oh, Esperanza Spalding, Billy Mohler, Avishai Cohen per citarne alcuni). Frequentatore della scena newyorkese più creativa e vivace, da questa Lovato ha assorbito stimoli e provocazioni come ben evidente in Cycles of Animation ( Skirl,2017) e Microcosms (ears&eyes,2022), i due album precedentemente pubblicati da leader.

Album Review

Willy Rodriguez: In The Unknown (I Will Find You)

Read "In The Unknown (I Will Find You)" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
July 2, 2026

Il batterista portoricano Willy Rodriguez, ormai newyorchese d'adozione, dirige in questo che è il secondo album a sua firma un trio anomalo, ma neanche troppo, con una tastiera in luogo del più canonico contrabbasso (bassless, come si dice), generando una musica scura (però anche qui solo fino a un certo punto) in cui appare decisivo l'apporto del sax--soprattutto tenore--di Ingrid Laubrock, da tempo ai vertici assoluti del tenorismo (quanto meno) contemporaneo, musicista affidabilissima che sembra proprio trattare la materia che ...

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Shawn Lovato: Biotic

by Troy Dostert
March 26, 2026

On his two previous releases, bassist Shawn Lovato revealed an inventive compositional approach that made excellent use of his ensembles. His debut, Cycles of Animation (Skirl Records, 2017), harnessed a formidable quintet while his sophomore effort, Microcosms, was more ambitious still, channeling his creative vision through a sextet format (ears&eyes Records, 2022). For Biotic, in contrast, Lovato is going small, with just a trio--although the sound is anything but diminutive, particularly with the tensile strength of saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock in ...

Album Review

Willy Rodriguez: In The Unknown (I Will Find You)

Read "In The Unknown (I Will Find You)" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
March 13, 2026

There are recordings that announce themselves with polish and calculation, and there are those born of necessity. In the Unknown (I Will Find You) by drummer Willy Rodriguez clearly falls into the latter category; a heartfelt reflection on absence, memory, and the unseen threads that connect us beyond time. Recorded at the esteemed Rudy Van Gelder Studio, the album carries the echoes of that room's storied history without relying on it. Rodriguez's choice to omit the bass is not just ...

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Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet

Read "Consentrik Quartet" reviewed by Don Ball

by Don Ball
September 2, 2025

While Nels Cline has been playing the guitar-hero rock star for the past two decades with Wilco, he continues to release his own solo recordings under various names (including the Nels Cline 4 and the Nels Cline Singers, which, amusingly, contain no vocalists) tailored toward the avant-garde side of jazz (with the notable exception of his lush, lovely jazz orchestra Blue Note release from 2016, Lovers). His 2025 release, Consentrik Quartet, brings together some of the finest jazz musicians working ...

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Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing the Air

Read "Purposing the Air" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 29, 2025

Avventuroso e ambizioso Purposing the Air, nuovo progetto di Ingrid Laubrock, notevole sassofonista di origini tedesche qui nelle vesti di compositrice. Dal poema “Mood Librarian -a poem in koan" di Erica Hunt, ha estratto sessanta frammenti, trenta nel primo CD e trenta nel secondo, affidandoli a quattro duo dove l'elemento fisso è la voce mentre la strumentazione si distribuisce tra violoncello, pianoforte, chitarra elettrica e violino. I sessanta frammenti-miniature-koan, alcuni di due sole parole, riportati nel dettagliato libretto interno, risuonano ...

Radio & Podcasts

Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing The Air With Music And Voices

by Lawrence Peryer
June 14, 2025

Today, the Spotlight shines on saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock. Ingrid's just released Purposing The Air (Pyroclastic Records, 2025), a double album that sets 60 brief poems by Erica Hunt to music through four different vocal-instrumental duos. It's an ambitious project that transforms Hunt's emotionally sharp koans into what Ingrid calls “a library of moods"--each piece capturing a different feeling, from the everyday to the searching. The project began during Ingrid's master's studies, when she met ...