All Star Jazz 4tet From New York Lead By Ingrid Laubrock at Lilypad

Her music straddles the boundaries of improvisation, new music and avant-jazz. This new quartet consists of New York City-based musicians who have all made a huge impact as composers, performers and improvisers in their own right. It’s a cast of innovative performers who are specialized in experimental music and constantly look for fresh avenues to create truly new music.

Ingrid Laubrock: Downbeat (Jazz) Annual Critics Poll Rising Star Soprano Saxophone (2015). Rising Star Tenor Saxophone (2018) and Herb Alpert/Ragdale Prize in Composition 2019. Her orchestral piece “Vogelfrei” was named one of the 25 best classical tracks of 2018 by the NY Times....

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Her music straddles the boundaries of improvisation, new music and avant-jazz. This new quartet consists of New York City-based musicians who have all made a huge impact as composers, performers and improvisers in their own right. It’s a cast of innovative performers who are specialized in experimental music and constantly look for fresh avenues to create truly new music.

Ingrid Laubrock: Downbeat (Jazz) Annual Critics Poll Rising Star Soprano Saxophone (2015). Rising Star Tenor Saxophone (2018) and Herb Alpert/Ragdale Prize in Composition 2019. Her orchestral piece “Vogelfrei” was named one of the 25 best classical tracks of 2018 by the NY Times.

“There are not many composers who are ready to accommodate, codify or even conduct free and often chaotic improvisations within their thoroughly-notated and disciplined work. And there are very few improvisers-composers who have the far-reaching and cross-border vision that enable a unique and seamless blend of composition, conduction and improvisation”. Sax player Ingrid Laubrock is one of these few ones. Salt Peanut’s review of “Contemporary Chaos Practices”, Intakt CD 314.
“Saxophonist/composer Ingrid Laubrock is interested in exploring the borders between musical realms and creating multi-layered, dense and often evocative sound worlds. She is a prolific composer who has written for ensembles ranging from duo to chamber orchestra”. TD Ottawa Jazz Fest.
“Rolling Stone Magazine noted “The fiercely dexterous musician has launched a number of bands combining serious chops with manic intensity and a left-field compositional vision.”
Originally from Germany (b: 1970) Ingrid Laubrock is based in Brooklyn since 2009. Laubrock's main projects as a leader are Anti-House, Sleepthief, Ingrid Laubrock Septet and Ubatuba. Collaborations include Paradoxical Frog, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey Duo and Crump/Smythe/Laubrock. She is a member of Anthony Braxton's Falling River Music Quartet, Nonet and 12+1tet, Tom Rainey Trio and Obbligato, Mary Halvorson Septet, Kris’ Davis Quintet, Nate Wooley’s Battle Pieces and Luc Ex’ Assemblée. She was one of the featured soloists in Anthony Braxton’s opera Trillium J.

This exciting freewheeling, free-playing, ear-stretching, mind-expanding set from composer / guitarist Brandon Seabrook strives for new ground in music—a hybrid of modern classical idioms and experimental jazz. All About Jazz “Convulsionaries” release.
Seabrook Power Plant, the nuclear trio donned “a manic clusterfuck of merciless banjo torture” by the Village Voice, is Brandon’s brainchild, blending the brutal energy of punk-rock with the intricate execution of through-composed avant jazz. The band has released two albums to much critical acclaim. Time Out New York praised the band’s eponymous debut as “not only one of the most baffling experimental releases of the year it's also one of the best.”
(b1984) Brandon is a New York guitarist, banjoist and composer who has established himself as one of the most unique and volatile guitarists of his generation. His work focuses on the intersections between improvisation and structure.

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