Ingrid Jensen

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Ingrid Jensen at the North Sea Jazz Festival 2008

Ingrid Jensen (born January 12, 1966 in North Vancouver ) is a Canadian jazz trumpeter .

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Jensen, on a farm near Nanaimo ( British Columbia grew up), comes from a musical family. The saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen is her sister. She studied at the Universities of Malaspina and Berklee College of Music , then moved to New York . After a European tour with the Vienna Art Orchestra , she became the youngest professor at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz in 1990 , where she taught jazz trumpet until 1992. Back in New York, she played with the women's big band Diva , Dr. John , the GRP All-Stars , the Maria Schneider Orchestra . She also worked with Carolyn Breuer , Jeff Tain Watts , Dr. Lonnie Smith , Marc Copland , Bob Berg , Gary Thomas , Gary Bartz , Johannes Enders , Jeff Hamilton , Bill Stewart , Terri Lyne Carrington , Billy Hart , George Garzone , Chris Connor , Victor Lewis , Judi Silvano Knut Haugsoen and Clark Terry . As a band leader and guest soloist, she toured North America, Japan, South America and Europe. She combines brilliant tone and virtuosity on trumpet and flugelhorn with a personal expression.

She currently teaches at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore . For her records with Enja she has been nominated several times for the Canadian Juno Awards . She was voted one of the “25 most important improvising musicians of the future” by Down Beat Magazine and one of the top three “Talents deserving against recognition” several times. In 2003 she was nominated for a Jazz Journalist Association Award in New York.

literature

  • Wayne Enstice, Janis Stockhouse Jazz Women . Indiana University Press, 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH North Vancouver