Jazz Articles about Ingrid Laubrock

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Album Review

Susan Alcorn / Leila Bordreuil / Ingrid Laubrock: Bird Meets Wire

Read "Bird Meets Wire" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
August 11, 2021

Three accomplished improvisers of different generations meet in the studio on All Fools Day 2018 to explore some common and not so common ground. Although pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn started out in C&W, she takes her instrument to realms never envisioned by its originators. One could make the same claim for Brooklyn-based French-born cellist Leila Bordreuil, though here the precedents are more numerous, while the similarly domiciled German saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, one of the brightest stars in the New ...

Album Review

Anthony Braxton: 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017

Read "12 COMP (ZIM) 2017" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
July 1, 2021

There had been just a slow trickle of recordings from Anthony Braxton, but all at once he made up for lost time with two major releases. One is a 13 CD box set of performances of standards. The other is a collection of recordings of original compositions that form part of his latest musical concept, ZIM Music, twelve works that run for a total of more than 11 hours and are released on a single Blu-Ray disc. ZIM ...

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Anthony Braxton: 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017

Read "12 COMP (ZIM) 2017" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 30, 2021

James Joyce, Anthony Braxton, and a music fan walk into a bar. The bartender says, “what is this? Some kind of a joke?" Joyce (okay, he died in 1941 but stay tuned) indicates, “this is no joke, and please send over the sommelier." The three patrons have come to this establishment to discuss Braxton's latest project, his House Of ZIM. Released as a sextet, septet, and nonet (save the quartets for another time) 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017 details eight performances ...

Album Review

Susan Alcorn, Leila Bordreuil, Ingrid Laubrock: Bird Meets Wire

Read "Bird Meets Wire" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
May 28, 2021

It may be impossible for anyone to free the pedal steel guitar entirely from its roots in country music but, if anyone can, Susan Alcorn would have to be the leading candidate. She has a phenomenal range on the instrument, capable of everything from folk-drenched Americana to abstract excursions, and she will sometimes combine her variegated tendencies on the same release, as she did on Pedernal (Relative Pitch Records, 2020), using a quintet to embody her atmospheric meditations. Here she ...

Album Review

Tom Rainey Obbligato: Untucked In Hannover

Read "Untucked In Hannover" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 5, 2021

Tom Rainey Obbligato is drummer Rainey's jazz standards group. Untucked In Hannover is the first live album of a triptych. It follows Obbligato (2014) and Float Upstream (2017), both on Intakt Records. Great American Songbook tunes hammered and bent and stretched away from expectations into new shapes is the name of the game, an approach which runs parallel to that of Lee Konitz, especially the alto saxophonist's late career outings, including Live At the Blue Note (Half Note, 2012) and ...

Radio & Podcasts

Olsen, Stewart, Berne & Mitchell, Laubrock, QMRplus, and, Dawid

by Bob Osborne
December 25, 2020

On this show we present new music from Douglas Olsen, Luke Stewart, Tim Berne & Matt Mitchell, Angel Bat Dawid & The Brotherhood, Ingrid Laubrock with large and small ensembles, QMRPlus, and Dave Douglas.Playlist Douglas Olsen “Tailwind" from 2 Cents (Self Released) 00:00 Luke Stewart “Awakening The Masters" from Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet (Astral Spirits) 05:39 Tim Berne, Mat Mitchell “Icreminced" from Spiders (Out Of Your Head Records) 16:57 Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood “London" from LIVE ...

Album Review

Ingrid Laubrock + Kris Davis: Blood Moon

Read "Blood Moon" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
August 4, 2020

Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and Canadian pianist Kris Davis recognized each other as kindred spirits early on after the German's move to New York City. They have remained close collaborators ever since. So much so that it's almost a surprise that this is their first record as a twosome. They've honed their shared sensibilities in Laubrock's Anti-House, Davis' Capricorn Climber and co-operatives such as Paradoxical Frog and LARK. And it's that sense of being entirely on each other's wavelength which makes ...