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Carlos Lopez-Real's Mandorla: Mandorla
by Chris May
Among the otherwise quite disparate assembly of musicians which makes up London's F-IRE collective and label, a shared sense of playfulness runs deep. Leading lights such as saxophonists Ingrid Laubrock and Finn Peters, guitarist Jonny Phillips, trumpeter and flugelhornist Tom Arthurs, cellist Ben Davis and drummer Seb Rochford--all seriously adventurous musicians--bring refreshing degrees of fun to ...
SWR Jazz Award for Ingrid Laubrock
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 ...
Paul Clarvis / Liam Noble: Starry Starry Night
by Chris May
A charming little beauty, Starry Starry Night is a collection of cover versions of mainly familiar material by drummer Paul Clarvis and pianist Liam Noble, two characterful lights of the British jazz scene. The tunes range from classic standards like Duke Ellington's “Mood Indigo," the Gershwins' “Embraceable You" and Scott Joplin's “Maple Leaf Rag," through to ...
Ingrid Laubrock: Sleepthief
by Clifford Allen
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 ...
Sleepthief
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Zugunruhe; Sleepthief; Oofy Twerp; Never Were Not; Environmental Stud; The Ears Have It; Batchelor's Know How; Social Cheats; Amelie.
Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock Interviewed at AAJ...And More
With Sleepthief (Intakt, 2008), Ingrid Laubrock--since mid-decade amongst the most singular saxophonists and bandleaders on the British scene--has made an album so exceptional that the German-born, London-based player hasn’t gone so much global as galactic. The disc features Laubrock in a trio with British pianist Liam Noble and American drummer Tom Rainey, on a wholly improvised ...
Ingrid Laubrock: A New Saxophone Colossus
by Chris May
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 ...
Ingrid Laubrock: Sleepthief
by Nic Jones
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 ...
Ingrid Laubrock with Liam Noble & Tom Rainey: Sleepthief
by Chris May
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.
Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey Live in the Bay Area
Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tom Rainey play two duo gigs in the Bay area during the first week of September, 2008--at the 21 Grand, Oakland on 3 September and the Java Lounge, Sacramento on 4 September. German-born, London-based Laubrock and Rainey are two thirds of the trio who have recorded Sleepthief (Intakt, 2008), which is ...
