Jazz Articles about Ingrid Laubrock

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Album Review

Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House: Strong Place

Read "Strong Place" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
February 28, 2013

With Strong Place, New York-based German saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock moves one step further in cementing her place at the heart of the Big Apple's fertile Brooklyn scene. Already on a roll with her plangent contributions to a series of stunning music including Sleepthief's Madness of Crowds (Intakt, 2011), drummer Tom Rainey's Camino Cielo Echo (Intakt, 2012), Paradoxical Frog's Union (Clean Feed, 2012), reed iconoclast Anthony Braxton's Falling River Music and pianist Kris Davis' Capricorn Climber (Clean Feed, 2013), Laubrock lives ...

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Varyan Weston - Ingrid Laubrock - Hannah Marshall: Haste

Read "Haste" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 11, 2012

Il trio di questo disco omonimo sembra essere di casa in festival e rassegne dedicati espressamente alla libera improvvisazione. In questo caso i tre brani sono stati registrati a Barcellona il 9 febbraio 2011 all'interno del XV Festival Internacional de Improvisación Hurta Cordel. Per quanto si tratti di un trio paritario si può percepire una certa gerarchia al suo interno. Varyan Weston, il più esperto e autorevole dei tre, amministra il suo pianismo con grande varietà di accenti, con concentrazione ...

Album Review

Ingrid Laubrock Sleepthief: The Madness of Crowds

Read "The Madness of Crowds" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 26, 2011

Se non lo conoscete ancora appuntatevi il nome di Ingrid Laubrock. La sassofonista, compositrice, band leader tedesca trasferitasi in Inghilterra nell'ormai lontano 1989 e assidua frequentatrice della scena newyorchese, non sbaglia un colpo. Ogni album che licenzia mostra l'ennesima sfaccettatura della sua proteiforme visione musicale e si presenta con le sembianze di un piccolo gioiello. Non è più una ragazzina Ingrid Laubrock, ma della giovane età conserva freschezza d'idee e curiosità. Nella band denominata Sleepthief si avvale di due superbi ...

Album Review

Ingrid Laubrock: Anti-House

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 5, 2011

Ingrid Laubrock, sassofonista nata in Germania ma con all'attivo importanti esperienze in seno al circuito della musica improvvisata londinese, nel 2008 è approdata a New York e questo eccellente lavoro testimonia i risultati dei suoi nuovi contatti, maturati dopo mesi passati ad ascoltare dal vivo i suoi colleghi nella metropoli americana. La musica di questo quartetto (talvolta quintetto quando Kris Davis si aggiunge al gruppo) si muove lungo un fiume di improvvisazione da cui emergono, come piccole isole, temini che ...

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Album Review

Ingrid Laubrock / Sleepthief: The Madness of Crowds

Read "The Madness of Crowds" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
July 31, 2011

As of The Madness of Crowds, saxophonist Laubrock, pianist Liam Noble and drummer Tom Rainey are one of the most rewarding bands out there. They were before, but now the clarity and depth of interaction in their music is enough to deepen that assertion, and when a signature sound also comes as part of the deal then it's time for the loud applause. Laubrock has evidently arrived at a point in her musical journey where she's more ...

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Live Review

Ingrid Laubrock’s Anti-House: London, UK, January 18, 2011

by John Sharpe
March 14, 2011

Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-HouseVortex Jazz ClubLondonJanuary 18, 2011 If music could be said to resemble a puzzle, then German saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House might be described as the sonic equivalent of a Sudoku. You know all the numbers fit somewhere and that there is logic behind it, but it just escapes comprehension as to how it operates. Without wanting to stretch the metaphor beyond breaking point, that was the conundrum facing listeners at the Vortex on ...

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Album Review

Ingrid Laubrock: Anti-House

by Nic Jones
October 12, 2010

Ingrid Laubrock's trajectory through the music reflects her choice of home. German-born, when she resided in London she was producing Latin jazz, but that proved to be only a passing phase. By the time of Forensic (F-IRE, 2004), it was clear that she was more intent on carving out an idiosyncratic space of her own. Now, having moved to New York, she's dealing exclusively in more demanding music, as this release exemplifies. Laubrock's Sleepthief trio produced one ...