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| INGRID LAUBROCK |
| Ingrid Laubrock was born in Stadtlohn, a small town
in Germany, in 1970.She started having music lessons as young as 4
years old and began to play classical piano and sing in local choirs
from the age of eight. Her first recording experience dates from that
time, singing the solo voice in an arrangement for accapella choir
on the town’s record. Throughout her childhood she performed
in church choirs and public concerts at the local music school. |
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1989 Ingrid left Germany for London where she took up the alto
saxophon . A year of studies with ex-Jazz Messenger Jean Toussaint
followed in 1992.Soprano (now her main voice) and tenor followed
shortly afterwards.
1993 she met singer Monica Vasconcelos and guitarist Ife Tolentino,
both from Sao Paulo in Brazil. Ingrid is one of the founder
member of Brazilian quartet NÓIS4 (formerly AS MENINAS)
and also long-time member of Monica Vasconcelos’ 9 –piece
band NÓIS.
NÓIS4 has been support act for Joyce, Gilberto Gil, Brian
Ferry and Airto Moreira / Flora Purim.
Apart from being a featured side woman on may recordings, she
recorded as co–leader with NÓIS4 and her own projects.
Her debut album WHO IS IT was released in 1998 and the second,
SOME TIMES in May 2001,both on Candid Records.
Her third album as a leader FORENSIC was out on F-IRE Records
in May 2005. |
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| In 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. |
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In 1999 Ingrid completed the postgraduate
jazz course at the Guildhall School Of Music & Drama, receiving
distinction for her final performance. During that year she studied
and performed with David Liebman, Kenny Wheeler, Billy Cobham, Stan
Sulzman and Jean Toussaint.
In January 2002 she played and sang backing vocals with Mercury
Award Winner, soul singer Dina Carroll.
Ingrid was featured guest soloist on ‘Rewind’, a channel
4 documentary about composers and their work, playing as a guest
with Django Bates’ Human Chain and the Aylesbury Youth Orchestra. |
| From May till End of July 2002 Ingrid
toured the UK, Middle East and Europe with charts singer Gabrielle.
In December 2003 NÓIS4 recorded their second album ‘Gente’
in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, featuring Brazilian musicians such
as Swami Jr, Toninho Ferraguti and composer/guitarist Guinga.
Ingrid is one of the founder members of the prestigious
F-IRE Collective, winners of the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation
2004. |
In 2005 she worked as a musician and actress
with the Continuum Ensemble and renowned theatre director Annabel
Arden in a production of George Aphergis ‘Little Red Riding
Hood’, performed at the Almeida Theatre in Islington.
In 2005 Ingrid was nominated for BBC Jazz Award (Rising Star
category).
Her latest album, collaboration with pianist Liam Noble, will
be released in early 2006.
http://www.ingridlaubrock.com |
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| GROUPS |
| 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, 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, Sharon
Wrey’s Jazz Xchange, The Continuum Ensemble, Tom Arthurs and
many more.
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| DISCOGRAPHY |
| Ingrid
Laubrock / Liam Noble |
Babel
Label |
2006 |
| Timings |
Barry
Green Ten to Ten Records |
2006 |
| Gustavo
Marques Quintet / Pororocas |
Candid
Records CCD |
2005 |
| Held
On The Tips Of Fingers / Polar Bear |
Sebastian
Rochford Babel Label |
2005 |
| Prelude
To A Kiss |
Brigitte
Beraha FMR Records |
2004 |
| Gente |
Nois4
Candid Records CCD79784 |
2004 |
| Forensic |
Ingrid
Laubrock F-ire Records 04 |
2004
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| Centripede |
Tom
Arthurs Babel Label |
2003 |
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Along this Way |
Larry
Bartley Octet |
2003 |
| Oferenda
/ Monica Vasconcelos & Nois |
Candid CCD79791 |
2003 |
| Some
Times / Ingrid Laubrock + guests |
Candid
Records CCD 79774 |
2001 |
| Bom
Dia / Nois4 |
Candid
Records CCD79207 |
2000 |
| Nois
Dois / Monica Vasconcelos & Nois |
MOVAS002 |
1999 |
| Who
Ist It / Ingrid Laubrock |
Candid
Records CCD79745 |
1997 |
| Nois
/Monica Vasconcelos & Nois |
MOVAS001 |
1997 |
| Summertime |
Matt
Borgmann |
1995 |
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| Press |
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| “She
plays exquisitely and with an atmospheric sense of space and
delay reminiscent of Lee Konitz.”
John Fordham / The Guardian
“A consummate saxophonist with a soaring imagination
and a gifted composer/arranger.This very creative and beautifully
realised disc projects intense and subtle emotions.”
Ian Carr / BBC Music
“Wonderful compositions and searching playing”
Joe Lovano
“Dark skirls may jostle intriguingly with superficially
lighter, more overtly swinging fare but Forensic coheres effectively,
courtesy both of the cogency of the compositions and of the
commitment and attention to musical nuance of its practitioners.”
Chris
Parker / The Times
“Darkly beautiful and breathtakingly inventive, Ingrid
Laubrock's third own-name album is one of the very best to
come out of the UK in recent months, and also the one which
heralds the arrival of the London-based saxophonist as a major
player on the international jazz stage. Mysterious, moody
and close to the edge, Forensic plays like a new take on the
noir tradition.”
Chris May / All About Jazz |
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