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.
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.
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]
Octet with Mary Halvorson (guitar), Tom Arthurs (trumpet), Ted Reichman (accordion), Liam Noble (piano), Ben Davis (cello), Drew Gress (bass), Tom Rainey (drums, xylophone)
As the band Anti-House; quintet, with Mary Halvorson (guitar), Kris Davis (piano), John Hébert (bass), Tom Rainey (drums); guest: Oscar Noriega (clarinet)
^"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.
^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. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
