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Ingrid Laubrock
In 1989 Ingrid left Germany for London where she took up the alto saxophone.
A year of studies with ex-Jazz Messenger Jean Toussaint followed in 1992. Soprano and tenor followed shortly afterward. In 1993 she met singer Monica Vasconcelos and guitarist Ife Tolentino, both from Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Ingrid is one of the founding members of Brazilian quartet NOIS4 and also a long-time member of Vasconcelos' 9-piece band NOIS. NOIS4 has been a supporting act for Joyce, Gilberto Gil, Bryan Ferry and Airto Moreira/Flora Purim. During the summers of 1998 and 1999, Ingrid studied with renowned saxophonist and educator David Liebman in the USA. She was nominated as “Rising Star of the Year” in the BT Jazz Awards for 1999. Also in 1999, Ingrid completed her postgraduate jazz course at the Guildhall School Of Music & Drama. During that year she studied and performed with David Liebman, Kenny Wheeler, Billy Cobham, Stan Sulzman and Jean Toussaint.
2004 Ingrid was awarded the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation as part of the F-ire Collective and in 2005 she was nominated for the BBC Award as “Rising Star.”
In January 2006 Ingrid was awarded the prestigious Fellowship for Jazz Composition by the Arts Foundation.
Ingrid has been interested in working in different fields, collaborating with contemporary classical group The Continuum Ensemble and and theatre director Annabel Arden, as well as with dancer/choreographer Frauke Requardt, who choreographed a show to Ingrid's music.
Ingrid has performed with Kenny Wheeler, Evan Parker, Norma Winstone, David Liebman, Billy Cobham, Jean Toussaint, Stan Sulzman, Django Bates' Human Chain, Guinga, Jazz Jamaica Allstars, Lol Coxhill, Verywn Weston, US cult procucer David Axelrod, soul singers Dina Carroll and Gabrielle, Souxie And The Banshees, Seb Rochford's Polar Bear, Jason Yarde, Grand Union Orchestra, Roberto Pla, Sheron Wrey’s Jazz Xchange, The Continuum Ensemble, Frauke Requardt's dance company, Tom Arthurs and many more.
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Shawn Lovato: Biotic
by Vincenzo Roggero
Shawn Lovato si aggiunge alla nutrita schiera di contrabbassisti, compositori e leader di formazioni, che da anni sono diventati una presenza costante nel mondo variegato del jazz e musiche affini (Linda May Han Oh, Esperanza Spalding, Billy Mohler, Avishai Cohen per citarne alcuni). Frequentatore della scena newyorkese più creativa e vivace, da questa Lovato ha assorbito stimoli e provocazioni come ben evidente in Cycles of Animation ( Skirl,2017) e Microcosms (ears&eyes,2022), i due album precedentemente pubblicati da leader.
Continue ReadingWilly Rodriguez: In The Unknown (I Will Find You)
by Alberto Bazzurro
Il batterista portoricano Willy Rodriguez, ormai newyorchese d'adozione, dirige in questo che è il secondo album a sua firma un trio anomalo, ma neanche troppo, con una tastiera in luogo del più canonico contrabbasso (bassless, come si dice), generando una musica scura (però anche qui solo fino a un certo punto) in cui appare decisivo l'apporto del sax--soprattutto tenore--di Ingrid Laubrock, da tempo ai vertici assoluti del tenorismo (quanto meno) contemporaneo, musicista affidabilissima che sembra proprio trattare la materia che ...
Continue ReadingShawn Lovato: Biotic
by Troy Dostert
On his two previous releases, bassist Shawn Lovato revealed an inventive compositional approach that made excellent use of his ensembles. His debut, Cycles of Animation (Skirl Records, 2017), harnessed a formidable quintet while his sophomore effort, Microcosms, was more ambitious still, channeling his creative vision through a sextet format (ears&eyes Records, 2022). For Biotic, in contrast, Lovato is going small, with just a trio--although the sound is anything but diminutive, particularly with the tensile strength of saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock in ...
Continue ReadingWilly Rodriguez: In The Unknown (I Will Find You)
by Pierre Giroux
There are recordings that announce themselves with polish and calculation, and there are those born of necessity. In the Unknown (I Will Find You) by drummer Willy Rodriguez clearly falls into the latter category; a heartfelt reflection on absence, memory, and the unseen threads that connect us beyond time. Recorded at the esteemed Rudy Van Gelder Studio, the album carries the echoes of that room's storied history without relying on it. Rodriguez's choice to omit the bass is not just ...
Continue ReadingNels Cline: Consentrik Quartet
by Don Ball
While Nels Cline has been playing the guitar-hero rock star for the past two decades with Wilco, he continues to release his own solo recordings under various names (including the Nels Cline 4 and the Nels Cline Singers, which, amusingly, contain no vocalists) tailored toward the avant-garde side of jazz (with the notable exception of his lush, lovely jazz orchestra Blue Note release from 2016, Lovers). His 2025 release, Consentrik Quartet, brings together some of the finest jazz musicians working ...
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Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing the Air
by Vincenzo Roggero
Avventuroso e ambizioso Purposing the Air, nuovo progetto di Ingrid Laubrock, notevole sassofonista di origini tedesche qui nelle vesti di compositrice. Dal poema “Mood Librarian -a poem in koan" di Erica Hunt, ha estratto sessanta frammenti, trenta nel primo CD e trenta nel secondo, affidandoli a quattro duo dove l'elemento fisso è la voce mentre la strumentazione si distribuisce tra violoncello, pianoforte, chitarra elettrica e violino. I sessanta frammenti-miniature-koan, alcuni di due sole parole, riportati nel dettagliato libretto interno, risuonano ...
Continue ReadingIngrid Laubrock: Purposing The Air With Music And Voices
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines on saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock. Ingrid's just released Purposing The Air (Pyroclastic Records, 2025), a double album that sets 60 brief poems by Erica Hunt to music through four different vocal-instrumental duos. It's an ambitious project that transforms Hunt's emotionally sharp koans into what Ingrid calls “a library of moods"--each piece capturing a different feeling, from the everyday to the searching. The project began during Ingrid's master's studies, when she met ...
Continue Readingjazzahead in New York during APAP and Winter Jazz – Meet us!
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Michael Ricci
Germany as a partner country, this is a unique opportunity to promote jazz from Germany worldwide. True to the motto “Building Bridges", the pre-premier of the commissioned work around Ingrid Laubrock in New York is the perfect opportunity to build a bridge from Germany to the motherland of jazz. A delegation from Bremen will be travelling to the U.S. metropolis in January to present jazzahead! and this year’s partner country Germany. And that’s not all: Ingrid Laubrock will give an ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ingrid Laubrock
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Ingrid Laubrock's birthday today! Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons at the age of four and began to play classical piano and sing in local choirs aged eight. Her first recording experience dates from that time, singing the solo voice in an arrangement for an a capella choir. Throughout her childhood she performed in church choirs and public concerts at the local music school... Read more. Place our Musician of the Day ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ingrid Laubrock
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Ingrid Laubrock's birthday today!
Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons at the age of four and began to play classical piano and sing in local choirs aged eight. Her first recording experience dates from that time, singing the solo voice in an arrangement for an a capella choir. Throughout her childhood she performed in church choirs and public concerts at the local music school... Read more.
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ingrid Laubrock
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Ingrid Laubrock's birthday today!
Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons at the age of four and began to play classical piano and sing in local choirs aged eight. Her first recording experience dates from that time, singing the solo voice in an arrangement for an a capella choir. Throughout her childhood she performed in church choirs and public concerts at the local music school... Read more.
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ingrid Laubrock
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All About Jazz is celebrating Ingrid Laubrock's birthday today!
Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons at the age of four and began to play classical piano and sing in local choirs aged eight. Her first recording experience dates from that time, singing the solo voice in an arrangement for an a capella choir. Throughout her childhood she performed in church choirs and public concerts at the local music school...Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons ...
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Dream-Work
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Ars Nova Workshop
In a 2008 interview following the release of the group's debut album on Intakt Records, Ingrid Laubrock articulates Sleepthief's sound: “There's a mysterious, dreamlike feel to some of the music—and also you can be torn right out of it. But in a wholly improvised situation it's not only your own imagination, ears, taste buds and emotions that guide your playing, it's also those of the other musicians." Since late 2006, saxophonist Laubrock, pianist Liam Noble, and drummer Tom Rainey have ...
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A Saxophone is Her Only Constant
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Michael Ricci
Some young jazz musicians find their style and move in lock, stock and barrel, making little refinements over the years but basically keeping their place. Ingrid Laubrock, a German saxophonist who started her career in London and has spent the last 15 years playing there, sounds happily unsettled. On tenor and soprano, shes omnivorous and pointed, slouching and precise, humorous and austere. She doesnt stay very long within standard jazz idioms, or even some of the favored nonidiomatic languages of ...
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SWR Jazz Award for Ingrid Laubrock
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All About Jazz
Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock is the winner of this year's Southwest Germany Radio (SWR) Jazz Award, one of Germany's most prestigious music awards.
The prize money is funded by the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and SWR and is worth around $19,000.
Laubrock received the award for her album Sleepthief (Intakt, 2008), recorded with Tom Rainey (drums) and Liam Noble (piano). The jury cited Laubrock's “individual and highly personal improvisation on the saxophone" as the reason for the award.
In 2006, Laubrock was ...
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Frequent Flyer
From: BioticBy Ingrid Laubrock
Koan 28
From: Purposing the AirBy Ingrid Laubrock
Language
From: Encounters and CollisionsBy Ingrid Laubrock
Anticipation
From: The Last Quiet PlaceBy Ingrid Laubrock
Anticipation
From: The Last Quiet PlaceBy Ingrid Laubrock
One Hundred Dreams Part 1
From: Hyaku: One Hundred DreamsBy Ingrid Laubrock
Combustion 1
From: Smoke Gets In Your EyesBy Ingrid Laubrock
Object
From: Close UpBy Ingrid Laubrock
Object
From: Close UpBy Ingrid Laubrock
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