Jazz Articles about Ingrid Laubrock

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...