Jazz Articles about Ingrid Laubrock

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Ingrid Laubrock: Anti-House

by Chris May
October 1, 2010

Her music has grown exponentially in the intervening years, but there are passages on saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House which resonate strongly with her 2004 album, Forensic (F-IRE), the disc which announced her emergence as a soloist and bandleader of propitious substance and originality. The connection is the beat. Until now, Laubrock's post-Forensic albums, notably Sleepthief (Intakt, 2008) and Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed, 2010), have found her more involved with sonic experimentation on her horns, and in-the-moment micro-interaction with her fellow ...

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Tom Rainey Trio: Pool School

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 29, 2010

Chiunque abbia avuto il piacere di vedere/ascoltare Tom Rainey [dal vivo o su disco, più probabilmente nei gruppi di Tim Berne] non avrà avuto difficoltà a riconoscere nel musicista californiano uno dei batteristi più originali e versatili della sua generazione - che pure di talenti dietro i tamburi ne annovera molti. Per il primo disco a proprio nome, confermando una qualità caratteriale di naturale undestatement, Rainey sceglie di formare un trio paritetico con due delle musiciste più stimolanti in circolazione, ...

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Ingrid Laubrock: Sleepthief

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 8, 2009

Con il consueto acume che ne contraddistingue arte e favella, nelle note di copertina di Sleepthief Steve Beresford offre un'intrigante chiave di lettura per la musica proposta dalla neonata formazione della sassofonista tedesca, anche se londinese d'azione e spesso residente a New York, Ingrid Laubrock: immaginate una via di mezzo fra il trio Schlippenbach/Parker/Lovens e il leggendario terzetto formato da Nat King Cole, Lester Young e Buddy Rich (anno di grazia 1946), precedenti storici, seppure in ambiti molto distanti, dell'inusuale ...

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Ingrid Laubrock: Sleepthief

by Clifford Allen
January 25, 2009

Sleepthief is an album in heavy company--as with any lineup featuring saxophones, piano and percussion, it will inevitably be compared with almost four decades of work by the Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio, as well as Cecil Taylor's 1962 trio with Jimmy Lyons and Sunny Murray and perhaps even the Lester Young-Nat King Cole-Buddy Rich trio of 16 years prior. The work of soprano/tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, pianist Liam Noble and drummer Tom Rainey might miss being shored up against decidedly ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...