Strong Place
Ingrid Laubrock Anti House
Released:
Jan 2013
Label:
Intakt Records
The German saxophonist, now based in Brooklyn, reunites her great East Coast quintet here. The first tracks flirt with modern classical textures, but aren't without moments of inspired soloing (Mary Halvorson's guitar on the opener; the leader on "Der Deichgraf"). But some shorter pieces prove the real winners. "From Farm Girl to Fabulous, Vol. 1" has more than a great title: It moves from a free-improv section to a grooving one, and finishes with a great, written outro -- in under six minutes. And the folk abstractions of "Cup in a Teastorm (for Henry Threadgill)" do its dedicatee justice.
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