Jazz Articles about Ingrid Laubrock

Ingrid Laubrock: A New Saxophone Colossus

by Chris May
September 15, 2008

With Sleepthief (Intakt, 2008), Ingrid Laubrock--a uniquely adventurous saxophonist and bandleader on the British scene since mid decade--has made an album so exceptional that the German-born, London-based musician hasn't gone so much global as galactic.

Deep, singular and utterly compelling, Sleepthief features Laubrock in a trio with British pianist Liam Noble and American drummer Tom Rainey, on a wholly improvised program in which she dazzles both with her brilliantly inventive playing and with the paradigm-shifting sonic ...

Ingrid Laubrock: Sleepthief

by Nic Jones
September 9, 2008

Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock is one of a handful of musicians who have plotted a disparate course through the music whilst ensuring that not an element of their trajectory sounds contrived. There's also an enviable lack of contrivance about her work, and this disc offers abundant proof of that. Furthermore Intakt is a label with built-in quality control and as such this meeting between musician and label feels so right.

Laubrock has already had the opportunity to build up an exceptional ...

Ingrid Laubrock with Liam Noble & Tom Rainey: Sleepthief

by Chris May
September 1, 2008

Listen, this is true. With Sleepthief, Ingrid Laubrock--since mid decade amongst the most interesting saxophonists and bandleaders on the British scene--has made an album so exceptional that it positions the German-born, London-based player as perhaps the most daring and exciting saxophonist anywhere in the world in 2008. It really is that extraordinary--and momentous--a release.

Wholly improvised, with no preconceived tunes, no overdubs, no post-production and no edits, and with the tracks sequenced in pretty much the same order ...

Ingrid Laubrock & Liam Noble: Let's Call This...

by Chris May
August 26, 2006

Though she's frequently heard on soprano saxophone, which she uses throughout this vividly painted little masterpiece of a disc, bandleader and composer Ingrid Laubrock has probably made her biggest impact as an instrumentalist on tenor. On the most recent release by her own band, Forensic (F-IRE, 2004), and in live performances with her own quintet and Polar Bear, the wild, off-the-page textural vocabulary Laubrock has created on the bigger horn has arrived amongst the most thrilling sounds in jazz.

But ...

Ingrid Laubrock: Playing with the Future

by Chris May
August 15, 2005

Born and brought up in Germany, but resident in London since 1990, saxophonist, composer and bandleader Ingrid Laubrock started getting noticed on the UK scene in 1997, with the release of her first solo album, Who Is It?. The same year she began recording with Brazilian singer Monica Vasconcelos' band Nois, a collaboration which continues on the road and in the studio, and in 2001 recorded her second album, Some Times.

Those first two solo albums, both on Candid, documented ...

Ingrid Laubrock Quintet: Live at the Progress Bar

by Chris May
April 27, 2005

Ingrid Laubrock Quintet Progress Bar London April 21, 2005

Being at a F-IRE performance in '05 feels like it must have felt to be at Minton's Playhouse in '41 or the Cavern Club in '63. There's a sense of being somewhere where the future is being written out in front of you. You feel like you're part of something thrilling and revolutionary. And you are.

F-IRE, the London-based musicians' collective - which includes ...

Ingrid Laubrock: Forensic

by Chris May
February 18, 2005

Darkly beautiful and breathtakingly inventive, Ingrid Laubrock's third own-name album is one of the very best to come out of the UK in recent months, and also the one which heralds the arrival of the London-based saxophonist as a major player on the international jazz stage.

Mysterious, moody and close to the edge, Forensic plays like a new take on the noir tradition. It's astringent and shadowy, like you'd expect from noir, but it's also visceral, hot and ...