[Dixielandjazz] Women in Jazz - Ingrid Laubrock + Others

[Stephen G Barbone]

The below review brought to mind the "Women in  Jazz" thread earlier  
this month. Ms. Laubrock is one of many women who play jazz in the  
more modern sense than OKOM. I think there are many more female  
jazzers then we know about. Some others, including OKOMers, are Paula  
Henderson, Cecilia Wennerstrom, Janina Morris, Amy Roberts, Dini  
Virsaladze, Nikki Parrott, Nicole Sasser, Diane White, etc., etc.,  
etc. They are found on Myspace. (Those listed above can be found on  
page 1 of Barbone Street's myspace page)

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband


January 15, 2010 - NY Times - By Ben Ratliff

A Saxophone Is Her Only Constant


Some young jazz musicians find their style and move in lock, stock and  
barrel, making little refinements over the years but basically keeping  
their place. Ingrid Laubrock, a German saxophonist who started her  
career in London and has spent the last 15 years playing there, sounds  
happily unsettled. On tenor and soprano, she’s omnivorous and pointed,  
slouching and precise, humorous and austere.

She doesn’t stay very long within standard jazz idioms, or even some  
of the favored nonidiomatic languages of free improvisation. You can  
guess a bit at whom she’s spent time listening to — Joe Lovano, Steve  
Lacy, Wayne Shorter, Lee Konitz — but she’s not defined by any of  
them; they pass through her sound and then disappear.

For the last several years Ms. Laubrock has been visiting the United  
States now and then to study and perform, and on Wednesday night at  
the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village she led a New York-based  
quartet — Mary Halvorson on guitar, John Hébert on bass, Tom Rainey on  
drums — with Kris Davis on piano occasionally as a fifth member. It  
was her own composed music, but sometimes as free as it could get  
within parameters.

You didn’t walk away thinking, well, that sounded like a certain  
person, place or time. Ms. Laubrock encouraged its constant sense of  
renewal. . . . . . (snipped two paragraphs for brevity)

Ms. Laubrock is a measured player: even at the music’s moments of real  
abandon you sensed her thinking carefully through sound and strategy.  
And that sometimes gave the music a kind of cool, counterintuitive,  
miniaturized feeling — free jazz as music-box tinkling.