Ingrid Laubrock

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Ingrid Laubrock, Arts for Art - Vision Festival 2024. Photo by Marek Lazarski

Ingrid Laubrock (born 24 September 1970) is a German jazz saxophonist, who primarily plays tenor saxophone but also performs and records on soprano, alto, and baritone saxophones.

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She studied with Jean Toussaint, Dave Liebman and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. [1]

Laubrock moved to London, England in 1989, [2] and became a member of the F-IRE Collective. In 2008 she moved to New York City. [3]

In 1998, she released her first solo album Who Is It? and was nominated for the 'Rising Star of the Year' award at the 1999 BT Jazz Awards. She was also nominated for the BBC Award 'Rising Star' in 2005 and in 2009 won the SWR Jazz Award for her recording Sleepthief, featuring pianist Liam Noble and drummer Tom Rainey (her husband). They recorded a 2011 album called The Madness of Crowds.

She has played and recorded with Brazilian singer Monica Vasconcelos' band NÓIS and the Brazilian quartet NÓIS4 of which she is a founding member. Other musicians she has made guest appearances with include Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, Polar Bear, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Scott Fields, and Anthony Braxton. [1] In 2020 she will play with Kris Davis at the first edition of the Monheim Triennale.

The composition ″Vogelfrei″ for orchestra, soloists and choir from the album Contemporary Chaos Practices was included in The New York Times' 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 by NY Times critic Seth Colter Walls. [4]

Ingrid Laubrock
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Ingrid Laubrock, moers festival 2012
Background information
Born (1970-09-24) 24 September 1970 (age 54)
Stadtlohn, Germany
Genres Avant-garde jazz, free jazz
OccupationMusician
InstrumentSaxophone
Years active1994–present
Labels Candid, Intakt
Website ingridlaubrock.com

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Release yearTitleLabelPersonnel/Notes
1998Who Is It? Candid
2001Some TimeCandid
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 Intakt 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 Intakt As the band Anti-House; with Mary Halvorson (guitar), John Hébert (bass), Tom Rainey (drums, glockenspiel); guest: Kris Davis (piano)
2011 The Madness of Crowds Intakt As the band Sleepthief; trio with Liam Noble (piano), Tom Rainey (drums)
2012CatatumboBabelTrio with Olie Brice (bass), Javier Carmona (drums)
2012 Haste Emanem Trio with Veryan Weston (piano), Hanna Marshall (cello)
2012 Union Clean FeedAs part of the band Paradoxical Frog; trio, with Kris Davis (piano), Tyshawn Sorey (drums)
2013 Strong Place Intakt As the band Anti-House; quintet, with Mary Halvorson (guitar), Kris Davis (piano), John Hébert (bass), Tom Rainey (drums)
2013Lark Skirl As part of the band Lark; quartet, with Kris Davis (piano), Ralph Alessi (trumpet), Tom Rainey (drums)
2014 Zurich Concert Intakt Octet with Mary Halvorson (guitar), Tom Arthurs (trumpet), Ted Reichman (accordion), Liam Noble (piano), Ben Davis (cello), Drew Gress (bass), Tom Rainey (drums, xylophone)
2014And Other Desert Towns Relative Pitch Duo with Tom Rainey (drums)
2015 Roulette of the Cradle Intakt As 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 12As the band Ubatuba; quintet, with Tim Berne (alto sax), Dan Peck (tuba), Ben Gerstein (trombone), Tom Rainey (drums)
2016Live @ The Jazz Happening TampereRelative PitchAs the band Perch Hen Brock & Rain; quartet with Ab Baars (reeds), Ig Henneman (viola), Tom Rainey (drums)
2016BuoyancyRelative PitchDuo with Tom Rainey (drums)
2016 Serpentines Intakt Septet with Peter Evans (trumpet), Miya Masaoka (koto), Craig Taborn (piano), Sam Pluta (electronics), Dan Peck (tuba), Tyshawn Sorey (drums)
2017 Planktonic Finales Intakt Trio with Stephan Crump (bass), Cory Smythe (piano)
2017UtterRelative PitchDuo with Tom Rainey (drums)
2018Contemporary Chaos Practices – Two Works for Orchestra and Soloists Intakt Quartet with Nate Wooley (trumpet), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Kris Davis (piano)
2019Channels Intakt Trio with Stephan Crump (bass), Cory Smythe (piano)
2019TISM RogueArt Quartet with Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), Mark Feldman (violin), Tom Rainey (drums)
2019Kasumi Intakt Duo with Aki Takase
2020 Stir Crazy Duo with Tom Rainey (drums)
2020Blood Moon Intakt Duo with Kris Davis
2020Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt – Music For Chamber Orchestra And Small Ensemble Intakt
2023The Last Quiet PlacePyroclasticSextet with Mazz Swift (violin), Tomeka Reid (cello), Brandon Seabrook (guitar), Michael Formanek (bass), Tom Rainey (drums)

As sidewoman

Release yearLeaderTitleLabel
2013 Kris Davis Capricorn Climber Clean Feed
2013 Mary Halvorson Illusionary SeaFirehouse 12
2014Max JohnsonThe PrisonerNoBusiness
2012 Living by Lanterns New Myth/Old Science Cuneiform
2010 Tom Rainey Pool School Clean Feed
2012Tom Rainey Camino Cielo Echo Intakt
2014Tom Rainey Obbligato Intakt
2015Tom Rainey Hotel Grief Intakt
2017Tom Rainey Float Upstream Intakt
2015Nate WooleyBattle PiecesRelative Pitch
2015 Sara Serpa Close UpClean Feed
2019Tom RaineyCombobulatedIntakt
2019Robert LandfermannTOPAZklaengrecords
2020Scott FieldsSeven DesertsNew World Records
2025 Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet Blue Note

References

  1. 1 2 "Yanagisawa – Ingrid Laubrock". Yanagisawasaxophones.co.uk. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  2. "Ingrid Laubrock". Jazz em Agosto: Biographies. Gubelkian Música.musica.gulbenkian.pt. 26 July 2011. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2017. Ingrid Laubrock, born in Germany, since 1989 lived in London, where in the nineties she asserted herself as a creative presence on the scene of contemporary London jazz before she recently moved to New York.
  3. "Anti-House by Ingrid Laubrock". Gubemusic.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  4. Tommasini, Anthony; Barone, Joshua; Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna da; Allen, David; Walls, Seth Colter; Woolfe, Zachary (13 December 2018). "The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 8 October 2019.