Landings Ingrid Jensen

• 1 Amsterdam After Dark 07:09
• 2 New Body 04:32
• 3 Ida Lupino 04:41
• 4 Handmaidens Tale 03:09
• 5 Landings 05:32
• 6 The Workers Dance 06:12
• 7 Many Homes, Many Places 04:26
• 8 Home 05:18
• Total Runtime 40:59

Info for Landings

Acclaimed trumpeter Ingrid Jensen releases "Landings", with music of astounding color, intricacy, and swing. Joining Jensen in this quarter are Gary Versace (organ), Marvin Sewell (guitar), and Jon Wikan (drums), who deliver music that is at once composed and free, intricate yet never tight, swinging as hell yet always searching. Legendary tenor saxophonist George Coleman joins the quarter to revisit his "Amsterdam After Dark."

“Landings” perfectly captures Jensen in forward motion: curious, generous, and still willing to take risks. Not every moment hits with equal force, but when it does, it really does. A thoughtful, well-crafted album that reaffirms Jensen’s enduring creative vitality." (Mike Gates, ukvibe.org)

Ingrid Jensen, trumpet
Gary Versace, organ
Marvin Sewell, guitar
Jon Wikan, drums
George Coleman, tenor saxophone (track 1)

Ingrid Jensen
Vancouver-born trumpeter Ingrid Jensen’s career got off to a running start with the release of her debut album, Vernal Fields, in 1995. The disc, which won the Juno Award for Best Mainstream Jazz Album the following year, introduced the jazz world to a player with abundant technical facility, a wildly imaginative approach to improvisation and a lustrous, deeply nuanced tone. An original new voice on the scene, Jensen seemed to defy convention with her eclectic blend of influences, which ranged from traditional jazz and classical music to American folk and the avant-garde.

Nearly 25 years later, Jensen continues to be a force in modern jazz. She has released numerous albums of high acclaim as a leader or co-leader, and she’s been a key collaborator alongside some of the most forward-thinking minds in jazz composition, including Clark Terry, Billy Taylor, Maria Schneider and Terri Lyne Carrington. Her most recent project, Invisible Sounds, is an album dedicated to the quietly influential trumpeter Kenny Wheeler (1930-2014), whose body of work for ECM helped establish the label as a powerhouse in European jazz. The album was recorded with co-leader and saxophonist Steve Treseler, a fellow Pacific Coast native.

Ingrid plays a custom Monette trumpet, built personally by the master builder Dave Monette.

This album contains no booklet.