Ingrid Laubrock

Ingrid Laubrock, moers festival 2017

Ingrid Laubrock in the Loft (Cologne) (2012)

Ingrid Laubrock (born September 24, 1970 in Stadtlohn ) is a German jazz musician (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophone ). Especially on the tenor and soprano saxophone , she has "developed a very independent and unmistakable voice that is able to adapt flexibly to a wide variety of contexts."

Live and act

Laubrock received piano lessons from the age of four and sang in choirs from the age of eleven. After graduating from high school in 1989, she moved to Great Britain, where she lived until 2008. In London she received saxophone lessons from Jean Toussaint and soon worked in the musician collective F-IRE . In 1998 she founded "Nois4" with the Brazilian singer Mônica Vasconcelos ; After studying with Myra Melford , in 2006 the nonet “No” was founded. In the same year she documented her duo with pianist Liam Noble on CD , which was later expanded with drummer Tom Rainey to form the trio “Sleepthief” (CD of the same name on “Intakt” 2008). She is a sought-after guest soloist and has worked with Kenny Wheeler , Evan Parker , David Liebman , Billy Cobham , Jean Toussaint, Norma Winstone , Stan Sulzmann , Lol Coxhill , David Axelrod , Veryan Weston , Siouxsie and the Banshees , Taylor Ho Bynum ( Enter the Plustet , 2016) and Django Bates (in "Human Chain") worked together. She also interprets contemporary classical music in the Continuum Ensemble . She forms Luc Ex 'Assemblée with Luc Ex , Ab Baars and Hamid Drake .

In 2008 she moved to Brooklyn , where she quickly gained a foothold and enriched the New York scene with her bands Anti-House , Paradoxical Frog and Sleepthief .

Prizes and awards

In 1999 she was nominated for the BT Jazz Awards . For her work at F-IRE , Laubrock received the "BBC Jazz Award for Innovation" in 2004. Her compositional work was honored with a Fellowship for Jazz Composition from the Arts Foundation in 2006. In 2009 she was awarded the SWR Jazz Prize; According to the jury's statement, German jazz finds her “one of its most creative and idiosyncratic artists.” In 2012, she received the improviser in residence grant from the city of Moers and lived and worked in the city on the Lower Rhine for a year. In 2015 she won the Down Beat Critic Polls in the Rising Star category. "Vogelfrei" from the album Contemporary Chaos Practices was voted one of the 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 by The New York Times .

Discography

As a leader / co-leader

year	title	Label	Note / occupation
1998	Who is it?	Candid
2001	Some time	Candid
2005	Forensic	F-IRE Collective	Quintet with Karin Merchant (piano), Ben Davis (cello), Larry Bartley (bass), Tom Skinner (drums); Guest: Julian Siegel ( bass clarinet )
2006	Let's Call This ...	Babel label	Duo with Liam Noble (piano)
2008	Sleepthief	Intact	Trio with Liam Noble (piano), Tom Rainey (drums)
2010	Paradoxical Frog	Clean feed	As part of the band Paradoxical Frog; Trio, with Kris Davis (piano), Tyshawn Sorey (drums)
2010	Anti-House	Intact	As part of the band Anti-House; Quintet, with Mary Halvorson (guitar), John Hébert (Badd), Tom Rainey (drums, glockenspiel ); Guest: Kris Davis (piano)
2011	The Madness of Crowds	Intact	As part of the band Sleepthief; Trio with Liam Noble (piano), Tom Rainey (drums)
2012	Catatumbo	Babel	Trio with Olie Brice (bass), Javier Carmona (drums)
2012	have you	Emanem	Trio with Veryan Weston (piano), Hanna Marshall (cello)
2012	union	Clean feed	As part of the band Paradoxical Frog; Trio, with Kris Davis (piano), Tyshawn Sorey (drums)
2013	Strong Place	Intact	As part of the band Anti-House; Quintet, with Mary Halvorson (guitar), Kris Davis (piano), John Hébert (bass), Tom Rainey (drums)
2013	Lark	Skirl	As part of the band Lark; Quartet, with Kris Davis (piano), Ralph Alessi (trumpet), Tom Rainey (drums)
2014	Zurich Concert	Intact	Octet with Mary Halvorson (guitar), Tom Arthurs (trumpet), Ted Reichman (accordion), Liam Noble (piano), Ben Davis (cello), Drew Gress (bass), Tom Rainey (drums, xylophone)
2014	And Other Desert Towns	Relative pitch	Duo with Tom Rainey (drums)
2015	Roulette of the Cradle	Intact	As part of the band Anti-House; Quintet, with Mary Halvorson (guitar), Kris Davis (piano), John Hébert (bass), Tom Rainey (drums); Guest: Oscar Noriega (clarinet)
2015	Ubatuba	Firehouse 12	As part of the band Ubatuba; Quintet, with Tim Berne (alto saxophone), Dan Peck (tuba), Ben Gerstein (trombone), Tom Rainey (drums)
2016	Live @ The Jazz Happening Tampere	Relative pitch	As part of the band Perch Hen Brock & Rain; Quartet with Ab Baars (tenor saxophone, clarinet), Ig Henneman (viola), Tom Rainey (drums)
2016	Buoyancy	Relative pitch	Duo with Tom Rainey (drums)
2016	Serpentines	Intact	Septet with Peter Evans (trumpet), Miya Masaoka ( koto ), Craig Taborn (piano), Sam Pluta (live electronics), Dan Peck (tuba), Tyshawn Sorey (drums)
2017	Planktonic finals	Intact	Trio with Stephan Crump (bass), Cory Smythe (piano)
2017	Utter	Relative pitch	Duo with Tom Rainey (drums)
2018	Contemporary Chaos Practices - Two Works For Orchestra With Soloists	Intact	Quartet with Mary Halvorson , Kris Davis and Nate Wooley
2019	Channels	Intact	Trio with Stephan Crump (bass), Cory Smythe (piano)
2019	TISM	Rogue Art	Quartet with Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), Mark Feldman (violin), Tom Rainey (drums)
2019	Kasumi	Intact	Duo with Aki Takase
2020	Stir crazy	-	Duo with Tom Rainey (drums)
2020	Blood Moon	Intact	Duo with Kris Davis

As a sidewoman

year	leader	title	Label
2013	Kris Davis	Capricorn climber	Clean feed
2013	Mary Halvorson	Illusionary Sea	Firehouse 12
2014	Max Johnson	The prisoner	NoBusiness
2012	Living by Lanterns	New Myth / Old Science	Cuneiform
2010	Tom Rainey	Pool School	Clean feed
2012	Tom Rainey	Camino Cielo Echo	Intact
2014	Tom Rainey	Obbligato	Intact
2015	Tom Rainey	Hotel Grief	Intact
2017	Tom Rainey	Float upstream	Intact
2015	Nate Wooley	Battle Pieces	Relative pitch
2015	Sara Serpa	Close up	Clean feed
2019	Tom Rainey	Combobulated	Intact
2019	Robert Landfermann	TOPAZ	sound records

Web links

Commons : Ingrid Laubrock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence
• All about jazz about leaf rock
• New music newspaper about Laubrock
• BBC via CD Forensic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} SWR
2. ↑ Message (NMZ)
3. ↑ Anthony Tommasini, Joshua Barone, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, David Allen, Seth Colter Walls: The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 . In: The New York Times . December 13, 2018, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed October 8, 2019]).