News and events
Monday 16, June 2025
2025 winner of the German Jazz Prize
I am very grateful and honored to have won the 2025 German Jazz Prize in the woodwinds category. It means a lot to me to receive this sign of recognition in the country I grew up in! A huge congrats to the other brilliant winners and nominees too. Being a musicians is hard work and we can’t exist without the support, collaboration, and deep connection to others. In that spirit, I want to thank everyone who has been on my team over the decades. It takes a village to make it work, and I appreciate you all!
Photo by ©Caroline Mardok Clip from the award ceremony (accepting the prize)
Monday 16, June 2025
Purposing The Air out on Pyroclastic Records!
My double album Purposing The Air with 60 songs based on Erica Hunt's poem "Mood Librarian - a poem in koan" is now out on Pyroclastic Records. The music features Fay Victor, Mariel Roberts, Sara Serpa, Matt Mitchell, Theo Bleckmann, Ben Monder, Rachel Calloway and Ari Streisfeld. Making this record has been a total labor of love over the past 3+ years, made possible by a grant from The Shifting Foundation.
If you'd like to support the label or artists, please purchase the album on Bandcamp.
"This is an ‘essential’ album, one that should not be filed away in your record collection but rather placed among your books, for it is pure intellectual nourishment, a profoundly fascinating experience." Paris Moves
"Impressive" - Mike Shanley/Jazz Times
"Purposing The Air" is a recording of extreme quality." Thierry de Clemensat/All About Jazz
Monday 16, June 2025
Brink by Ingrid Laubrock + Tom Rainey out now!
Tom Rainey's and my duo record is out now on Intakt Records!! Please visit their Bandcamp for digital and physical copies.
Intakt CD 425
Since 2017, the two virtuoso improvisers and unmistakable stylists Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey have been celebrating music as a duo. A classic duo that releases energy, pulsating vividly while simultaneously withdrawing into intimacy. A celebration of successful interplay, burning for the moment. Brink is a fascinating example of jazz as the art of dialogue. In a profound and telepathic way, Laubrock and Rainey understand each other and speak to each other through the music. "We listeners will often find ourselves breathing as Ingrid and Tom breathe, as they cherish space along with vivid instrumental ideas", writes Nels Cline in the liner notes and adds: "The duo of Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey has been its own beautiful story as this golden couple has coalesced to create music that, while evincing the natural breaths of humble human existence, also possesses magic.“
Since 2017, the two virtuoso improvisers and unmistakable stylists Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey have been celebrating music as a duo. A classic duo that releases energy, pulsating vividly while simultaneously withdrawing into intimacy. A celebration of successful interplay, burning for the moment. Brink is a fascinating example of jazz as the art of dialogue. In a profound and telepathic way, Laubrock and Rainey understand each other and speak to each other through the music. "We listeners will often find ourselves breathing as Ingrid and Tom breathe, as they cherish space along with vivid instrumental ideas", writes Nels Cline in the liner notes and adds: "The duo of Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey has been its own beautiful story as this golden couple has coalesced to create music that, while evincing the natural breaths of humble human existence, also possesses magic.“
released August 16, 2024
Ingrid Laubrock: Soprano and Tenor Saxophones
Tom Rainey: Drums
Compositions 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13 by Ingrid Laubrock (PRS/MCPS) 3, 4, 7, 10, 11 by Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey (BMI). Recorded April 7, 2024, by Andy Taub at Brooklyn Recording, New York. Mixed May 8, 2024 by Andy Taub at Brooklyn Recording, New York. Mastered by Weasel Walter in May 2024. Graphic design: Stephen Byram. Charcoal drawings: Dianna Sanchez. Liner notes: Nels Cline. Photos: Jessica Hallock. Booklet design: Fiona Ryan. Produced by Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey and Intakt Records. Published by Intakt Records, P.O. Box, 8024 Zürich, Switzerland. www.intaktrec.ch
Ingrid Laubrock: Soprano and Tenor Saxophones
Tom Rainey: Drums
Compositions 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13 by Ingrid Laubrock (PRS/MCPS) 3, 4, 7, 10, 11 by Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey (BMI). Recorded April 7, 2024, by Andy Taub at Brooklyn Recording, New York. Mixed May 8, 2024 by Andy Taub at Brooklyn Recording, New York. Mastered by Weasel Walter in May 2024. Graphic design: Stephen Byram. Charcoal drawings: Dianna Sanchez. Liner notes: Nels Cline. Photos: Jessica Hallock. Booklet design: Fiona Ryan. Produced by Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey and Intakt Records. Published by Intakt Records, P.O. Box, 8024 Zürich, Switzerland. www.intaktrec.ch
