Jazz Articles about Ingrid Laubrock

About Ingrid Laubrock

Album Review

Ingrid Laubrock: Contemporary Chaos Practices

Read "Contemporary Chaos Practices" reviewed by Don Phipps

by Don Phipps
November 16, 2018

From the first startling attack of Contemporary Chaos Practices, Ingrid Laubrock lets the listener know she wants your attention. And the music is certainly attention-grabbing. Or would startling, fascinating, and incredible be better words? For nothing quite sets the table for what the listener will experience on this album. It is as if heaven and earth have been distilled into a musical tome that seeks, justifiably, to confront the anxiety and irrationality that darkens contemporary times. German composer ...

Album Review

Sara Serpa: Close Up

Read "Close Up" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
July 13, 2018

Finalmente un album pienamente convincente della cantante portoghese (qui anche autrice di tutto il materiale tematico), spesso preziosa, nella sua produzione, ma altrove (anche all'interno di uno stesso lavoro, suo o altrui) un po' disarticolata, quasi schizoide, magari solo curiosa, e comunque alterna nella resa in concreto. Sarà senz'altro anche merito dei due musicisti che l'affiancano, fatto sta che questo suo ultimo album, live alla Pete's House di Brooklyn nel giugno 2017, convince senza arzigogoli o avvitamenti (critici, estetici) di ...

Album Review

Sara Serpa: Close Up

Read "Close Up" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
April 13, 2018

Portuguese vocalist Sara Serpa has been a significant presence on the New York jazz scene for several years now, creating music with literary and artistic allusions in the company of renowned musicians like Ran Blake, Nicole Mitchell and Tyshawn Sorey. For her latest project she leads a trio that also features saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and cellist Erik Friedlander. The music they make together, with Serpa often singing wordlessly, creates an airy tapestry of sound. On “Sol Enganador" Friedlander ...

Album Review

Ingrid Laubrock Serpentines: Serpentines

Read "Serpentines" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
December 15, 2016

On the eponymous Serpentines, German-born, NYC-based saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's unveils a new outfit featuring unconventional instrumentation, peopled by an all star cast. For this line up Laubrock takes her enigmatic charts for groups such as Anti-house and Ubatuba to another level, as improv jazz meets the classical avant-garde in pieces where mood and texture often trump individual pyrotechnics. It's fair to say that the assembled talents very much reside at the service of Laubrock's tightly drawn yet organic frameworks.

Multiple Reviews

Le Rex: Wild Man / Ingrid Laubrock: Ubatuba

by Stefano Merighi
November 25, 2016

Due organici praticamente identici (fiati + batteria) con un ruolo importante riservato alla tuba. Sembrano lontani i tempi in cui questo strumento aveva ritrovato agilità e stupore, sotto le dita di Howard Johnson o Bob Stewart. Ora i fremiti bassi e rugosi dell'ottone glorioso sono esaltati nei ritmi delle musiche di Henry Threadgill oppure, come nei casi in questione, in musiche compatte di ricomposizione stilistica o in partiture lontane dalle etichette, quasi indefinibili, di Ingrid Laubrock.

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Ingrid Laubrock e il Questionario di Proust

by Paolo Peviani
November 24, 2016

Ingrid Laubrock è una sassofonista tedesca, attualmente residente a New York. Ha ricevuto numerosi riconoscimenti a livello internazionale, tra cui nel 2004 il BBC Jazz Award for Innovation e nel 2015 il Rising Star per la categoria sax soprano nel Downbeat Annual Critics Poll. Tra le sue collaborazioni, ricordiamo Anthony Braxton, Dave Douglas, Tom Rainey, Jason Moran, Tim Berne, William Parker, Mary Halvorson. I suoi progetti da leader includono Anti-House, Sleepthief, Ingrid Laubrock Orchestra, Ingrid Laubrock Sextet e ...

Album Review

Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Buoyancy

Read "Buoyancy" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 14, 2016

In baseball it's called “small ball." That might be the best way to describe the improvising duo of saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tom Rainey. Small ball baseball teams win, not by home run blasts, but by putting runners in scoring position, bunting, and stealing bases. Flamboyant rarely wins the series. Confident, often understated play, is what connoisseurs of both baseball and improvised music seek. The partners in music here are also partners in life. Maybe that explains ...